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- technews@radiation.party
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After trying endlessly for two years to run a file sharing site with user anonymity we have been tired of handling the extreme volumes of people abusing it and the headaches it has created for us. Maybe it is hard to understand but after tens of million uploads and many petabytes later all work of handling abuse was automated through all available channels to be fast as possible. We have auto banned contents of hundreds of thousands files. Banned file names and also banned specific usage patterns connected to abusive material to the point where we did not care if we accidental delete thousands of false positive in this process. Even after all this the high volume of abuse will not stop. This is not the kind of work we imagine when acquiring it and recently our proxy provider shut us down.
This can not continue.
Domain 4sale.
- ShrimpsIsBugs ( @ShrimpsIsBugs@feddit.de ) English158•1 year ago
Classic “this is why we can’t have nice things” moment
- Hot Saucerman ( @dingus@lemmy.ml ) English31•1 year ago
Sometimes I wonder, considering how high the volume of the abuse, how much of the “abuse” is copyright holders purposefully flooding such services with shit like CP to force a shutdown.
Like, either there’s fucking millions upon millions of pedos out there, or they have the financial backing of a giant corporation and/or government.
- janguv ( @janguv@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English21•1 year ago
That strikes me as really out there. I think the reality is that there’s a lot of people into CP sadly – as an absolute but not relative number – and you don’t need many out there to have a prolific amount of content, which we know from our own special interest cases.
This is what always unnerves me about privacy tech. I always feel the pull of using high level encryption with whatever I’m doing – file storage, communication, etc – but a part of me is always saddened at the same time with how much abuse is effectively facilitated by anonymity and privacy.
But as the horrors of the dark web have shown, it’s a battle that law enforcement will never win – our most effective weapon as a society against CP and related abuse is
Chris Hansen(I shouldn’t joke) …is engaging with and changing the material causes of this phenomenon. There will always be tools for sickos; the challenge is to prevent people from becoming as sick as they are, and when sick, finding ways to prevent them from abusing others.Sorry for slightly OT rant lol.
- chicken ( @chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English11•1 year ago
Probably, it’s a really obvious and effective way to attack a website. I hear any small imageboard that tries to start up has this problem too. Any shady organization with no ethics can basically use this to shut down anything that allows user content and doesn’t have huge moderation resources.
- PirateRock ( @PirateRock@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English5•1 year ago
Sadly even if 0.1 percent of the world population is a disgusting pedo that’s still 9 million people, even more unfortunate is that the actual percentage is somewhere in the 1-3 percent range.
- neutron ( @neutron@thelemmy.club ) English23•1 year ago
Tragedy of the Commons.
- metaltoilet ( @metaltoilet@beehaw.org ) English49•1 year ago
What a shame. Stupid fucking pedos.
- KDE ( @KDE@monyet.cc ) English34•1 year ago
That’s sad A lot of stuff was hosted on it from the tor network
- Mixel ( @Mixel@feddit.de ) English33•1 year ago
I really liked it I used it if I need to send some 100 mb files to friends god I will miss that site it was great
May I introduce you to one of the many wormhole client?
- Mixel ( @Mixel@feddit.de ) English6•1 year ago
Thank you for the suggestions :D
- Nix ( @nix@merv.news ) English5•1 year ago
Doesn’t that require both users to be online at the same time?
Also what’s with that name how is anyone supposed to remember how to spell rymdport…
- solarzones ( @solarzones@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English4•1 year ago
Yes! I use wormhole all the time. Even for transferring files across computers on my network.
- Synnr ( @Synnr@sopuli.xyz ) English15•1 year ago
Curious if their proxy host was cloudflare or DDoS-Guard (Russian) or even a lesser known service.
- Cannizzaro ( @Cannizzaro@feddit.ch ) English25•1 year ago
they are smart
- 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏 ( @lemann@lemmy.one ) English13•1 year ago
Njalla 💪
- Cannizzaro ( @Cannizzaro@feddit.ch ) English10•1 year ago
Not sure if people got it but it says : “you can get no info” in name servers. also the irony that njalla is the worst when it comes to hosting and domains
- ReversalHatchery ( @ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org ) English4•1 year ago
Why are they the worst? So far I have only read the opposite, but I wouldn’t be surprised if I’m just not up to date
- Cannizzaro ( @Cannizzaro@feddit.ch ) English4•1 year ago
Had few of my friend’s running streaming sites get their domains suspended without notice and their servers too which were hosted on njalla. i have been hearing around forums that they are no longer DMCA proof and comply with companies pretty easily too.
- ReversalHatchery ( @ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org ) English2•1 year ago
Maybe they can’t handle the amount anymore. Or maybe they have changed. Good to know this, thanks!
- Ejh3k ( @Ejh3k@midwest.social ) English14•1 year ago
I am very proud to say that I wasn’t even aware that abusive material filenames had a certain pattern. Thought never crossed my mind.
- ByteWizard ( @ByteWizard@lemm.ee ) English12•1 year ago
And thus the true nature of humanity reveals itself, as it always does. Usually people who experience this go from liberal to conservative. Being liberal requires holding the delusion that people are naturally good.
- reverendsteveii ( @reverendsteveii@beehaw.org ) English31•1 year ago
holding the delusion that people are naturally good
Nope! Just recognizing the truth that I, within myself, can be better and that I can accept the idea of being taken advantage of by the occasional bad faith actor in exchange for being able to be part of a broader community of people who do the right thing most of the time.
Cynicism is laziness masquerading as intellectualism. It’s the “step 1: give up!” of philosophies.
- zaknenou ( @zaknenou@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English3•1 year ago
- Communist ( @communist@beehaw.org ) English25•1 year ago
You should read stirner.
I think the notion that humans are evil means you must be a conservative is laughable honestly. I’m a communist and I certainly don’t believe humans are naturally good or selfless in any way.
- DragonTypeWyvern ( @DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe ) English13•1 year ago
All socialist thought is innately humanist, because collectivism can not work without the assumption that people will at least choose to be good when it’s the easier path, but yes, the idea that because a minority will abuse the system if you let them you must be a conservative is…
Well, not surprising from a rot-brain.
- totallynotfbi ( @totallynotfbi@lemm.ee ) English10•1 year ago
God damn, this will definitely break a lot of DDL shares - I know that, for a couple of forums, Anonfiles was the host that the majority of uploaders used.
- TheObserver ( @TheObserver@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English6•1 year ago
Ayyy i remember that place. That’s where the OG netflix ripping tool from scene was. Doesn’t work anymore sadly.