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WARNING: Lemmy Self-Hosters, There Have Been CSAM Attacks taking place against !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world (jamie.moe)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Jamie@jamie.moe to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://jamie.moe/post/113630

There have been users spamming CSAM content in !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world causing it to federate to other instances. If your instance is subscribed to this community, you should take action to rectify it immediately. I recommend performing a hard delete via command line on the server.

I deleted every image from the past 24 hours personally, using the following command: sudo find /srv/lemmy/example.com/volumes/pictrs/files -type f -ctime -1 -exec shred {} \;

Note: Your local jurisdiction may impose a duty to report or other obligations. Check with these, but always prioritize ensuring that the content does not continue to be served.

Update

Apparently the Lemmy Shitpost community is shut down as of now.

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[-] drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 18 points 2 years ago

I was looking into self hosting. What can I do to avoid dealing with this? Can I not cache images? Would I get in legal trouble for being federated with an instance being spammed?

[-] lemann@lemmy.one 5 points 2 years ago

Someone else here mentioned not running "pictrs” at all

[-] 7Sea_Sailor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago

Refer to this comment chain from this same thread https://poptalk.scrubbles.tech/comment/577589

this post was submitted on 28 Aug 2023

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