reporting absolutely helps. it increases visibility for content that slipped through automated moderation and having more reports for content indicates urgency.

here’s also some more context and explanation about what’s going on:

https://fedi.fyralabs.com/notes/9psdqurvye
https://fedi.fyralabs.com/notes/9psnooe6p1
https://fedi.fyralabs.com/notes/9pth6oh3xr

at that point you’ll just discourage any new users if they have to gamble on whether or not their content is actually seen by anyone. account age really isn’t a good indicator of anything other than soemone being dedicated enough to spam. considering this isn’t the first wave of csam attacks, i can assure you that whoever is targeting lemmy with this is determined enough that account age won’t deter them for long, they’ll just have to slightly adjust their playbook.

that doesn’t do anything, they’ll just register accounts in advance and wait some days.

we’ve even had spam recently from accounts that had been dormant for months, although it was a different kind of spam.

account deletion does not federate in general, only banning (+ content removal) does

based on https://help.apple.com/xcode/mac/current/#/deve2819c518 it seems like users may need to explicitly enable sharing crash data with app developers.

I don’t know what the default for this is.

https://help.apple.com/xcode/mac/current/#/dev9a80ab71d seems to imply that you need to distribute your app via app store or testflight to be able to receive crash reports.
the majority of apps installed on my mac are not installed via app store, though many of them have app store variants.
i don’t know if the distribution channel matters or just having the app in app store is enough.
this article however also explicitly states this, so it appears that you do indeed by default not send this data to app developers:

users who download your app from the App Store will need to agree to share crash and usage data with developers.

I’m pretty sure this only goes to Apple, not to the actual developer.

I believe I’ve even seen devs specifically ask for copies of the reports from the crash reporter, as they wouldn’t receive them otherwise.

this doesn’t change the rest of your statement though, just afaik the recipient is different.