• robotrash@lemmy.robotra.sh
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      10 months ago

      Federation still causes those images to be saved on your hardware, even if the account that creates it is hosted somewhere else.

      • whofearsthenight@lemm.ee
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        10 months ago

        This is kinda a major problem with lemmy, and the idea that they don’t have CSAM detection on the roadmap is going to make wide adoption a near impossibility. The other thing though is that even automated CSAM detection isn’t 100%, so hosting your own instance likely means you’re going to have to view CSAM and other fucked up shit at some point to properly moderate it, even if you’re just hosting for yourself. Tbh I was strongly considering hosting my own instance because it’s not like, that hard/expensive, but this saga has turned me completely off of that idea, even just for myself.

        This actually makes me wonder how much reddit mods deal with this type of thing instead of paid employees like facebook, which has a paid army dealing with content moderation on facebook. Oh, and talking about xitter now which has neither volunteer mods and no moderation team since Elon fired them all, I assume that the freaks have just decided that’s their hosting platform of choice.

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      10 months ago

      I think it was an issue where the CSAM was being copied to servers via normal federation with the instance(s) being spammed.