We have temporarily locked posting on AskLemmy until the CSAM posting stops.

    • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.ml
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      9 months ago

      I feel like this is an underrated idea. Resonates with the whole thing of making a subset of the internet simpler and just like documents, as with the simpler protocols like Gemini etc.

      • Davel23@kbin.social
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        9 months ago

        That would still allow links to be posted. Better than allowing image posts, but not a complete solution.

        • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.ml
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          9 months ago

          It prevents concerns about hosting CSAM posted by someone else. A categorical improvement I’d say. But yes, nothing’s perfect.

        • rar@discuss.online
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          9 months ago

          Still better than nothing. Easier for mods of text-only communities to only have text-only posts submitted.

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            9 months ago

            If we then add a few conditions: “no links in the root message” and “OP may not be the first to comment within some unspecified amount of time,” that could make it even easier to limit CSAM.

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          9 months ago

          You’re right. I thought of another idea: use karma to decide who can post links, images and/or videos. 50 general karma for links, 100 for pictures, you get the idea.

          • DaleGribble88
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            9 months ago

            Not an effective solution for a federated service. Just spin up a new instance and give yourself karma. Shoot, there is no centralized service for validating accounts, so just set up 50 alts across 50 instances.