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This has nothing to do with Lemmy, but more with any social media that is just open to the general public. Ask the moderator teams of Facebook, what they encounter day to day. Many of these poor folks work in shitty job conditions and burn out leaving with PTSD.

If you spin up a fediverse app like Lemmy, you spin up a platform. It is platform software. And you get the responsibility, but also the opportunity, to set that up well. Curate the content in your instance. Lemmy and any other fediverse apps comes with a set of moderation tools that allow you to handle this, and there is a strong focus in the developer community to improve them on a continual basis.

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This is a huge ask. Most of us are just nerds that find the technical aspects interesting, a hobby during our spare time.

If you create an open club for your hobby in real life, you will also get weirdos joining your group. These people will commit minor offenses like disturb others and serious offenses like sexually harass someone. A club that includes teens will, with non-zero probability, share porn with each other, or even "inappropriate" pictures/videos of their peers - the latter of which is a very serious crime.

You can avoid this in both real life and or the internet by making very closed clubs in which only very trusted people are added.

It's a good time to mention Safe Harbor laws, because not every country has them and so not every person can host something like this without taking on personal liability for what travels through or rests on the "platform".

> Curate the content in your instance

How do i do that without getting PTSD as well? Or is there some magic method that works without me looking at CSAM and gore constantly?

Whitelist instead of blacklist seems like it would work.

How do you know what you can whitelist without looking at it?

Only allow trusted people to upload your content.

But how do you know who you can trust?

A cursory look through someone's post history.

If a 6-day old account making highly voted posts and no comments? Bot, part of a botnet (check who upvoted, and purge as neccesary).

6 month old account, combination of high and low effort comments? Does not emit hatred with every fibre of their being? Appears to understand debate? Rational human, trust.

You do it on case-by-case basis and slowly increase your trust network

> A cursory look through someone's post history

Thus reopening yourself to the trauma of viewing CSAM.

Deny by default, allowlist per account. That's what lemmy.ca is doing, you have to apply for an account.

This is speculation; they may look at ips and other fingerprint data to determine if they accept your acc application.

Whitelist what?

We’re probably a year from self hostable video LLM models that can identify sexual content etc. with high sensitivity (but probably poor specificity)

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