Seeing how I had to become very knowledgeable because I'm an instance owner in the last few hours because of Lemmy and bad actors, this is absolutely not true.

I'm pretty sure the mods and admins of lemmyshitpost are fully aware of the illegal content being reported to them in one of the most popular Lemmy tiddeRverse communities, so i'm not entirely confident the 'proactive removal' info is relevant in this situation.

If 10 volunteers can't keep up with it, most of which have now quit, I find it really hard to see this as "drama" personally. I see it as a serious issue which has real life consequences for both the instance owner (risk of being raided) and the moderators subjected to reviewing it.

I suspect you wouldn't describe it as overblown if you were in the same situation as the mods. I occasionally sift through the modlog and there are occasionally some seriously vile takes in there, spam posts and abuse removed by these volunteers on a daily basis, all to keep our feeds clean. Add traumatic content on top of that too, and it's no surprise some mods have left and they've shuttered the comm.

Apologies if I come off as abrasive in this comment in general, but I just vehemently disagree with the take that this is just some "overblown drama"

Yea, just leave the CSAM till someone reports it, great solution!