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I mean, this is just pulling out the old Reddit playbook.
AHS was known for mass posting CSAM on subreddits that they wanted to be banned by the admins.
Bit different here, but the principle of killing the place is there. CSAM spammed on L.W -> CSAM spreads to other instances because federation and sync -> other instances obviously don't want CSAM on them and defederate from L.W -> L.W dies because nobody is federated with them
This was my first thought as well. I hate that being so cynical is my reaction now, but this is just DDOS by another method. The point is to make the platform unusable so people will go somewhere else. CSAM is just the weapon. It's doubly vile because it's just going to become ammunition in the war against federation altogether. The stakes are high enough that the institutional players have plenty of cash, no ethics, and no accountability, and I wouldn't at all put it past any social media alternative to employ these kinds of tactics to kill the fediverse before it can gain a foothold. And (at the risk of getting too conspiratorial) that's not even considering governments and ordinary black hats.
AHS? American Home Shield? American Horror Story?
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