We've implemented some basic controls to hopefully catch CSAM material earlier. As with any such control, occasionally there might be false positives. Unfortunately that's the price we pay....
Yep, latest account from discuss.tchncs.de and posted on !asklemmy@lemmy.ml, just purged one ~10mins ago. They're probably going to move instances as long as there's one with open registrations unfortunately.
This bullshit just boggles my mind... what is their motivation?? I luckily haven't ever encountered this.
I thought lemmy.world was being targeted specifically a few months back, but it sounds like this asshole is doing it indiscriminately? I always suspected the attack on .world was from the exploding heads jackasses, because that attack started right after the instance defederated from them.