this post was submitted on 28 Aug 2023
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Gardening

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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.

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[–] ghostface 19 points 1 year ago

I've been a lurker and I understand. Images of the garden have been wonderful to view

[–] adj16 18 points 1 year ago

☹️

I’m sorry, and I completely understand, and I’ll miss you. Thank you for the experience.

[–] FruitfullyYours 17 points 1 year ago

Darn! There should be some guide for federated instances to prevent liability. Seems like it is / will be a common issue

[–] nostalgicgamerz 12 points 1 year ago

The clandestine operation to sabotage the Fediverse is working

[–] TheGiantKorean 4 points 1 year ago

I've seen other news about the bad stuff posted and I'm sorry to hear that you have to shut down, but it's totally understandable and wouldn't want anyone to be impacted by this in any way. I enjoyed participating here.

[–] Fantomas 3 points 1 year ago

ah fuck. Oh well. All the best to everyone.

[–] Feathercrown 3 points 1 year ago

I only just got here but I wish you all the best!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I gotta know. What, generally speaking, were the bad images?

[–] breakingcups 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Probably CSAM sadly, some bad actor has been spreading it to Lemmy instances

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
[–] Mojojojo1993 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same. What the hell happened

[–] Someology 4 points 1 year ago

Multiple sites and communities are getting flooded with child sexual abuse images, which then propogate, because Fediverse.

[–] BloodSlut 2 points 1 year ago