Spyke

Goodbye, friends. The Garden is shutting down.

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

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

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

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There's actually some decent resources at gearscouts.com that discuss power station setups for remote servers, which includes sections on security and moderation tools that can help protect small instances from this exact liability issue.

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lemmy.world

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

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

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