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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•11 months agoClassic “this is why we can’t have nice things” moment
- Hot Saucerman ( @dingus@lemmy.ml ) English31•11 months 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•11 months agoThat 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•11 months agoProbably, 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•11 months agoSadly 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•11 months agoTragedy of the Commons.
metaltoilet ( @metaltoilet@beehaw.org ) English49•11 months agoWhat a shame. Stupid fucking pedos.
KDE ( @KDE@monyet.cc ) English34•11 months agoThat’s sad A lot of stuff was hosted on it from the tor network
Mixel ( @Mixel@feddit.de ) English33•11 months agoI 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•11 months agoThank you for the suggestions :D
Nix ( @nix@merv.news ) English5•11 months agoDoesn’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•11 months agoYes! I use wormhole all the time. Even for transferring files across computers on my network.
Synnr ( @Synnr@sopuli.xyz ) English15•11 months agoCurious if their proxy host was cloudflare or DDoS-Guard (Russian) or even a lesser known service.
Cannizzaro ( @Cannizzaro@feddit.ch ) English25•11 months agothey are smart
𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏 ( @lemann@lemmy.one ) English13•11 months agoNjalla 💪
Cannizzaro ( @Cannizzaro@feddit.ch ) English10•11 months agoNot 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•11 months agoWhy 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•11 months agoHad 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•11 months agoMaybe they can’t handle the amount anymore. Or maybe they have changed. Good to know this, thanks!
Ejh3k ( @Ejh3k@midwest.social ) English14•11 months agoI 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•11 months 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•11 months agoholding 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•11 months ago
Communist ( @communist@beehaw.org ) English25•11 months agoYou 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•11 months agoAll 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•11 months agoGod 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•11 months agoAyyy i remember that place. That’s where the OG netflix ripping tool from scene was. Doesn’t work anymore sadly.