hey friends,

over the last maybe year or so we have been keeping registrations closed whether it be for abuse reasons or because of election results, we have used closing to our advantage to prevent illegal activities on poast.

over the last year or so, pedophiles from pawoo, baraag wherever have been coming to poast because of how well we are federated and searching for pedophillic terms, images or likeminded individuals using hashtags, usernames etc.

i spent the entirety of yesterday and tonight and will spend a couple days going forward writing a python program that analyzes our logs in real time looking for these behaviors. identifies these threat actors and emails staff with details including their account identities if they have one.

in the next two to three weeks i will be testing this fully in production where any of these actors seeking this material will have their information emailed to us in real time. if it passes my thresholds for account age, reputation etc and there are no false positives we will begin automatically formatting professional emails with reports of these users to NCMEC and cypertip.ca. people outside of north america unfortunately have to be dealt with through NCMEC but it is a step in the right direction.

I am focused on finishing this and I will make this software public so any other instance can also utilize the service. pedophilia has no place on fediverse just like indians and trans people.

god bless and we love you guys