this post was submitted on 07 Jun 2023
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Usually stuff like this get's taken care of quickly. There are no sophisticated filters on open-source lemmy like on the big social networks to automatically censor something. It has to be done by a mod or be reported first.
Also happened to me 30 years ago in IRC (then it might have been considered funny) and on reddit. Sometimes ugly stuff slips through. (not talking about a harmless rickroll)
I am pretty sure you were just really unlucky. Let's hope trolls don't succeed in destroying a great thing.
EDIT: you can check the modlog to see if the user has been banned. Pretty sure lemmy.ml and beehaw banned the offender.
I'm sure I just got unlucky, however it certainly was a messed up first impression. I'll keep checking things out here, but I wont go back to there and risk seeing it again. As people say, that's enough internet for today.
Seems like all of the most sophisticated filters that the big social media sites use should be made open source. Iโm sure they took a lot of time and money to develop, but lack of illegal images should not be an axis that social media are forced to compete on.