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Defederate lemmynsfw.com? (self.lemmyworld)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by CosmicGiraffe to c/lemmyworld
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The admins on lemmynsfw.com have decided to allow "non-IRL loli", i.e. drawn porn involving children/teenagers. (Post: https://lemmynsfw.com/post/29633).

Irrelevant of the moral issues that this poses, such content is illegal in many countries (e.g the UK). Continuing to federate with lemmynsfw.com will put users at risk of significant legal repercussions.

Please would the admins consider defederating unless lemmynsfw change their policy.

UPDATE: The lemmynsfw admins posted an clarification here: https://lemmynsfw.com/post/29826. My original argument for defederating doesn't stand any more.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'd say the kbin integration was a pretty big win? And there are tons of new servers coming up - I wouldn't worry about losing a few. There are other nsfw communities as well.

De-federating from someone is totally fine, and that should be up to instance owners (ideally with some input from users)

[–] medborgare 5 points 2 years ago

Exactly, defederation is just a tool and it’s up to the owners to use it when appropriate and in line with their goals for the instance.

For example when brigading happened on Reddit some subreddits had to go private to defend themselves, with Lemmy the owners can defederate from the offending instance instead but still keep access open for everyone else. Another aspect is the legal side, as someone else also mentioned the content OP talks about is illegal in many countries and due to the way the Fediverse works owners of the federated instances will end up linking and hosting that illegal content on their own servers as well, unless they defederate.