I've seen the controversy where lemmy.world defederated from 2 piracy instances. So since there is no one big owner what is stopping someone creating a instance that host CP or other illegal stuff?

From what it seems like is instances can try to defederate from those instances but the only justice that can happen seems only from government/police but that only works in certain countries because more can just pop up bypassing the defederation.

I'm kinda concerned if this issue has no solution because it's a pretty sharp edge of the double edge sword of having instances anyone can create and host.

Because someone can just host a CP instance and now that instance even if defederated from other instances still provides a safe space for pedophiles to share content and other illegal stuff.

Also what is stopping someone from creating an instance that has a slur for its name and then go around in other federated instances and post comments and make post. Like you don't want someone named "NAZI_[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Totally unrelated, I heard a couple of South Africans at work mention 'the k word.' I was like wtf is this, so I asked them.

The word was kafir. And I was like, 'you mean like the lime???'

Yeah, apparently kafir is a slur. I've only ever heard it used in the context of kafir limes.

As far as limes go, they are kinda average. Hard to squeeze. I'm not a lime expert though.

[–] ttmrichter 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Kafir" is an Arabic word meaning "disbeliever" (teacher lie: the reality is a bit more complicated).

"Kaffir" is an Afrikaans pronunciation corruption of the term, first used to describe the pagan African communities, but then applied even to monotheists (who are technically not kafir in Islam), and then, in the end, applicable as a racial slur to all blacks: the Afrikaans equivalent of the n-word.

Not to be confused with the German "Kafer" which means "beetle".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for elaborating! I'm learning so much today.