Yes it would. Truth be told, defederating lemmy.world would have also fixed this, but as you probably know I consider that to be the nuclear option. I've considered doing it, but I don't think the .world team is to blame, they are as much of a victim as we are.
Yes, it does make a lot of sense. But given the current state of Lemmy I doubt we can expect such a high degree of interactivity on the admin side. I think we will more likely get a dumb checkbox that, when ticked, will automatically purge the content without asking for an admin's opinion.
And hell, after this, I would tick it without thinking twice.
You don't have to apologize for having done your job. You did everything right and we appreciate it a lot. I've spent the whole day trying to remove this shit from my own instance and understanding how purges, removals and pictrs work. I feel you, my man. The only ones at fault here are the sickos who shared that stuff, you keep holding on.
Can conferm, seeing "vegan friendly" stickers outside of restaurants is one of the things that drives me away from them. Discrimination is bad, but vegans are worse.
I guess it depends on how edgy we are talking, but yes, that is also true.
At this moment in time, yes they are. The lemmy.world team took down the community that was being targeted, which means that the attack has stopped (even though whoever was posting that shit got his own way). I'm bummed about having done these mass deletions but I was quite scared and that was the easiest thing to do.
Actually, if such an issue was to re surface in the future, I have found a way to more selectively delete the incriminated content. Only side effect of that is that I have to look at those pictures myself to grab their ID; and Lord, that shit can be disturbing at times.
Thank you for your patience and sorry about having destroyed your posts.
While I like the idea of having more memes on the instance, I feel like that's a bit too broad of a scope for the time being. If you have any memes that you'd like to share feel free to post them in !general@lemmy.basedcount.com
Good stuff! I have yet to listen to the whole album, but this is pretty promising.
From the way you worded it I understood it as:
- I get the option to not cache images posted by anyone else
- you get the option to prevent me from caching your content
which aren't the same thing, two different people making the same choice
Yeah good points.
not cache federated media
That's actually likely to come in the next update (pull request). It actually was proposed as a measure to save space, rather than to fix a security issue, but it do nonetheless.
only deliver it from it’s originating instance on request
Don't think I agree with this. It's not so easy as an admin to identify contents of this kind getting posted on your instance or knowing that you have trolls among your userbase. It's the kind of stuff that is hard to predict and once it's happened it's already too late. As an alternative I would propose:
- fix the damn "purge" button: we actually do have a button to delete content off the database on the admin interface. Only thing is, it doesn't currently cover image caches, those stay indefinitely unless manually deleted from the terminal, as I did today. This is a MAJOR flaw and should be fixed ASAP
- someone in the admin matrix chat proposed federated purges. It's somewhat controversial, but basically means that the content would get automatically deleted on all instances if the admin of the instance where it was originally posted presses the purge button. That way the lemmy.world admin could have automatically solved the problem for every other instance.
Troll / spam accounts posted CSAM in !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world. That spread with federation and every admin ended up involuntarily hosting such content.
Application based sign up means that if a user wants to subscribe they have to fill out a form and a .world admin gets to review it and approve or reject their sign up. It's a measure of controlling who gets in and limiting the amount of bots and possibly troll that join an instance.
Welcome, new mod.