You may have heard about an incident from the other day where a user uploaded some baaaaaad images. I’m worried that the responsibility for hosting that stuff could circle back to the nice people running instances, as federated sites are connected that way.
I’m just a garden guy. Here because I wanted to show off pics of my garden with like minded green thumbs. I don’t need to get caught up in any trouble. The other thing is that I have this instance which is mostly just this one community !gardening. We often have only 1 or 0 active users in a day even though many people subscribe and participate from other instances. It’s lovely to have you all come and visit but hosting an instance for myself doesn’t grow corn 🌽.
Special shout out to our most active users Thrawn, Spacebar, editedit, thegiantkorean, David from Space. I have really enjoyed connecting with y’all through my favorite hobby. I will see you on one of the other garden communities I’m sure.
I gotta know. What, generally speaking, were the bad images?
Same. What the hell happened
Probably CSAM sadly, some bad actor has been spreading it to Lemmy instances
Yuck
I think it’s the CSAM images, someone has tried to upload am illegal image on one of the communities, and as is the way with the fediverse, all instances federated with that community gets a copy of the image, hence all are guilty by law technically, whether you knowingly or unknowingly saved a copy of it. Such nuance does not apply to the law, it’s just “you got a copy =guilty” doesn’t matter how it happened.
CSAM (child sexual abuse materials)
CP
