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A High Priority for Moving Away from Lemmy
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this post was submitted on 17 Sep 2023
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I hate to say it, but you'll need to find a text-only platform. Allowing any image uploads opens the door to things like this.
Besides that, if your concern is that no moderator should be exposed to anything like that, well on a text-only site you might have to deal with disguised spam links to gore, scam, etc. You'll still have to click on links to effectively moderate.
Maybe you should consider if this is a position that you want to put yourself in again. It sounds like this may just not be for you.
This was my immediate thought as well. It's unfortunate, but there will probably always be people who abuse online platforms like this. It's totally okay if you're not up to the task of moderating disturbing content like that
it sounds like it can be a really brutal job. I don't know what the moderation tools on Lemmy are like, but maybe there's a way to flag different kinds of moderation concerns for different moderators (so not everybody has to be exposed to this kind of stuff if they're not comfortable with it). And maybe there could also be a system where if user's flag the post it can be automatically marked as NSFW and images can be hidden by default so moderators and other users don't have to be exposed to it without warning (though of course such a system could potentially be abused as well). But beyond that I'm not sure what else you can do, aside from maybe limiting federation.