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  • ethical ads are virtually non-existent. when limiting ads to ethical ads it’s unlikely you’re getting even remotely close to bringing in the necessary funds.

    people promoting ads are typically those who expect others to suffer while they themselves are using ad blockers. there are some people who honestly turn off ad blockers, but i wouldn’t recommend anyone to do that for any site, as i don’t consider the majority of ads ethical and it’s also often used as a malware/phishing/scam distribution mechanism.

    this is also a vicious cycle of more people blocking ads -> ads getting worse to offset the lost ad revenue -> more people blocking ads. this is what lead to the internet today, where the majority of the internet is basically unusable if you don’t use ublock origin or a comparable solution.





  • instance admins were indeed asked to help promote the post, but this is nothing anyone was forced to do, and this is probably something we would have done without explicitly being asked about it. i don’t see anything that would need to be disclosed here, as it is in our own interest keep lemmy development going and we did not receive or were offered anything in return for sharing this post.

    the draft for the original post was shared a few days ago in a public matrix room for instance admins, so admins had some time to consider if/how they wanted to help promoting this when it was published and maybe prepare some text for their own posts.



  • MrKaplan@lemmy.worldtoLemmy.World Announcements@lemmy.worldLemmy needs more donations
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    it’s around 2.5% of our monthly expenses that go to the lemmy devs. 2% of the stated minimum donation goal would be the hosting costs for lemmy.ml. with the assumption that the lemmy donation goals is met, that would mean around 0.05% of the donations to lemmy.world/fedihosting foundation are used for lemmy.ml hosting costs.

    this was already explained in a few other places in the comments here, but in the end, even if it wasn’t directly going to instance operating costs, if you pay people a salary and they then take it out of their own pockets there is no real difference, as the money would still end up in the same place.

    edit: it has since been clarified that only donations via Lemmy’s open collective account are used for lemmy.ml hosting costs. our donations towards Lemmy development are not done through open collective and therefore 0% of lemmy.world/fedihosting foundation donations are used for lemmy.ml hosting costs.

    whether this is something that makes a difference in the end is something you have to decide on your own, but this is still the addressing the frequently mentioned topic of having donations explicitly for development rather than also supporting lemmy.ml operations.




  • I truly appreciate the offer, but my concern isn’t about money, it’s about this taking away even more of my personal time. If this was a regular day job I was doing, rather than my actual day job, which I have in addition to the time I spend on Lemmy.World related activities, then I could file this during my regular working hours. After all, it’s time I’d spend being at work anyway.

    I’ve recently been spending countless hours already dealing with other stuff that is not directly tied to Lemmy.World but came up “around” it, including sending abuse reports to various instances about CSAM that federated to them a long time ago. This includes time spent on identifying such material, then finding suitable abuse report mechanisms, providing instructions for how to deal with it. Afterwards it needs reviewing whether the content has been removed or requires further escalation steps, such as one case where I’ve filed a police report today for a case where neither the instance itself nor the hosting provider deals with abuse reports at all.

    As mentioned before, there also seem to have been two different people involved in sending these messages, the original person, where most of the information is/was available publicly and has been collected by various people already, who would be in a much better position to report this content to law enforcement.
    The person sending the gore images did in fact use a Lemmy.World account in one case, which we do have more information about than publicly available or available for users on other instances, so this would be the only case for which we’d be in a privileged position for reporting. This however would also most certainly not be a report that would help any sort of harassment investigation, as this copycat probably doesn’t have any ties to the original harasser.

    If we had a significantly larger amount of donations towards our foundation we’d also be able to pay someone to deal with things like this, but we’re currently just over the hosting costs with our monthly donations.





  • we currently have our own solution to send emails with a custom text explaining why people were rejected and what they can do next. we’ll have to review whether the built-in solution would be capable of replacing this functionality adequately if we add rejection reasons to lemmy when rejecting the applications.

    our current solution rejects applications and then deletes the user from the database to ensure that they can sign up again if they want, as denied applications only get deleted after a week or so and an appeal process would require support tickets and a lot more time to be spent by us on addressing those.

    our application process is fully automatic and just depends on certain words to be provided and the email not being disposable.



  • The screenshot in my previous comment is directly from their abuse form at https://abuse.cloudflare.com/csam. Your email is specifically about their proactive scanner, not about abuse reports that are submitted.

    They also explicitly state on their website that they forward any received CSAM reports to NCMEC:

    Abuse reports filed under the CSAM category are treated as the highest priority for our Trust & Safety team and moved to the front of the abuse response queue. Whenever we receive such a report, generally within minutes regardless of time of day or day of the week, we forward the report to NCMEC, as well as to the hosting provider and/or website operator, along with some additional information to help them locate the content quickly.