Comment on lemm.ee plans for mitigating image upload abuse
vamp07@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Well as always users that did nothing wrong are the ones that suffer. I think banning images is overkill. Let the forum police themselves. It’s the way this is supposed to work. Just banning images site wide is pretty draconian and defeats the purpose of the fediverse. Blocking any images that could contain any level of nudity is also overkill. I’ll probably move to a self hosted server eventually.
sunaurus@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I’m very happy if users who are comfortable with running live services set up their own instances, I think that’s one of the best ways to ensure long-term success for Lemmy.
In response to “let the forum police themselves” - this is not a thing, unfortunately. While it’s super important for lemm.ee that users downvote and report rule breaking content, somebody still has to deal with the consequences of these reports. Additionally, there is a chance that illegal content is uploaded and never reported, but we still have a legal responsibility to deal with it.
vamp07@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Well, in that case, I think the Fediverse is in serious trouble. You will end up with too much fragmentation in how servers handle this sort of thing; it’s definitely going to keep happening and probably get worse. I think delegating to the community of forum participants to handle the problem is in the spirit of the Fediverse. In either case, I admit it’s up to each server owner to do what they feel is best. I suspect the Noster model of dumb repeaters is a better model.
ToxicWaste@lemm.ee 1 year ago
That different instances handle issues differently is inevitable. Just from a legal standpoint they will HAVE to enforce different laws, depending on where they operate from.
However you have a point in the community helping out. I don’t know what the application process is, but you might want to look into it. If you can just take over looking into some of these reports, it will help reduce this 3-digit load on admins.
vamp07@lemm.ee 1 year ago
If communities are never even given a view of the offending posts, they will obviously never be able to participate in the solution. I think communities that don’t address offending posts can and should be banned at the server level. Unless it is handled this way, then I guess server operators take complete ownership of the issue. I’m not even touching the topic of what constitutes an offending posts, which lends itself to all kinds of mis interpretations.