A few observations/thoughts.

• There's an awful lot of posts basically saying "this is a part of the job of moderation" and I don't think that's a particularly empathetic or useful observation. I've been on the internet and moderating for long enough to have been exposed to a lot of this, but this is not an inevitability. It's an outcome of the system we've designed, of regulation and law that we have, and of not prioritizing this as a problem strongly enough. Being dismissive of an emotional experience and trauma isn't particularly helpful.
• I'm not technical enough to explain this, but there are technical and legal issues with CSAM and the lemmy platform that we've ran into. For one, there's no automated scanning tools for this kind of content. My understanding is that even implementing or creating said tools would be difficult because of the way pict-rs and rust are storing images in the first place. You cannot turn off image federation, at all. At best, you can clear the content, but doing so may violate CSAM laws depending on the country and reporting requirements. Someone on the technical side can explain better than I can.
• This isn't a thread to discuss who's to blame for CSAM. Please cease all discussions fighting about religion in the comments. I will be removing these comments.