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In case anyone is wondering, it's rqd2.
The definition of paraphilia is "a condition characterized by abnormal sexual desires, typically involving extreme or dangerous activities.", which can inclde pedophilia.
It has recieved 4 censures from fediseer due to the content contained on that instance
Not a good look for Lemmy to be promoting any instance like that.
Update: A pull request was sent to remove the sus instance. It should no longer show up soon
I think it just auto-discovers federated instances and randomly shows them on the page unless explicitly disabled...
True but it still isn't a very good look for lemmy.
The only ones who have to be concerned about the looks are the instance admins.
Lemmy isn't a product in need of marketing.
You're right, but this is the sort of thing that gets blown up by the media and used to shut down privacy-friendly platforms.
Maybe it's a slippery slope fallacy on my part, but it's not unimaginable to consider the idea that legislators could try to take down an enitre platform based on something like this. Just look at some of the proposed privacy-antagonistic legislation that's been introduced recently to see what I mean.
The Fediverse isn't a platform with a server you can take down, though. That's the beauty of decentralization.
Good point, yeah
Many Lemmy users wish their niche communities would become more populated. For goals like that, the reputation of the platform is important. I also don't want to get into defensive debates when revealing to someone that I use Lemmy.
Seems like the kinda thing that comes down to "because it hasn't been explicitly told not to yet". It's a computer grabbing from an ever changing pool of instances based on parameters, not a person hand picking what they like. Computers aren't usually aware of social ques or laws...
That's correct, its fixed now.
I don't have a link, but the lemmy creators (and maintainers of join-lemmy) answered this in a AMA about a month ago. They said they'd prefer the horrible people concentrate in their own instances so we can block them easily rather than have them in our instances. The join lemmy list does not serve as an endorsement, but a catalog of all available instances.
Saying it's not an endorsement is playing semantic games. Join-lemmy.org is a site that promotes Lemmy, and having this instance there is encouraging new users to hop onboard an instance that encourages people to discuss how best to rape children.
They said they’d prefer the horrible people concentrate in their own instances so we can block them easily
Then they need to stop stonewalling and add user controllable instance blocking. I know that some clients have it but they've been rejecting calls to add it to the main lemmy codebase for a long time.
I am pretty sure I remember reading in the latest changelog that they just added it? At least on the backend they did. Probably didn't work out the frontend features for it.
I think it's important to add that the answer in that AMA referred to exploding heads (or maybe a different right-wing instance but something like that) and not this one. I'm sure the Lemmy devs would care a lot more about removing links to a pedo instance than a political one
Sry about that yall, I was out today.
Its gone now thx to @[email protected] .
Any admins as well as anyone that runs instance discoverers / crawlers like join-lemmy.org be sure to update your blocklists,.
Edit: In the future if anyone could make PR's to this file, we'll try to get to them ASAP.
Thank you
Jesus Christ the first local post I saw after checking it out was a meme about being a MAP from a user called "Matt Walsh"
I mean that's hilarious but also damn it really isn't a queer/kink instance that's messed up
Yeah that lad is pretty active ngl. Atleast Matt knows that being a MAP is pretty hardcore ultra cringe. (https://rqd2.net/post/15585).
(Fuck why am I complimenting degenerates like MAPs?)
The word is pedo. Or goof, or nonce, etc. Let's not give them any legitimacy by using their language.
I'd never heard of MAP, so just looked it up and went 'so a paedo then". Let's call a nonce a nonce.
It's not a real term. It was 4chan trolling.
Ah right, explains a lot.
That was an interesting rabbit hole I just went through. There was a post about French postmodern philosophers who defended pedophilia that was posted on that instance as a validation to their cause, meanwhile all the comments under the video are of people recounting their trauma of being sexually assaulted as children.
Thanks to your awareness, its now the most popular listed.
I'll just leave these here...
https://www.rainn.org/news/how-prevent-child-sexual-abuse-material-csam
Dam, that's sad. That was the first instance I tried to sign up with but it wouldn't get past the verified email part. Guess that's a good thing, I had to look me into it as I thought this post was just another alt right witch hunt for trans people. Maybe a kink instance could be made with hard rules about that stuff. Really a LGBT community with a wiki would be good. I just got on here so maybe something like that already exists.
Guess that’s a good thing, I had to look me into it as I thought this post was just another alt right witch hunt for trans people. Maybe a kink instance could be made with hard rules about that stuff. Really a LGBT community with a wiki would be good. I just got on here so maybe something like that already exists.
If anything, lemmy is making the LGBTQ+ community look bad by promoting this instance, and I wouldn't be surprised if there are people pretending to be LGBT over at that instance to make the community look bad.
I agree, I hold no ill will to non offenders and hope they get help but the posts on there are not about getting help or coping.
Err, are you sure about your words op? I just looked at their sidebar and it looks pretty clear about that, no?
Quoting :
"Nothing illegal under US (specifically Nevada) or local law. You know what that includes. (In case you don’t know what that includes, I mean child pornography [anything that fails the Dost Test], sexually interacting with minors, etc.) We have a zero tolerance policy for anything that fails the Dost test. Anything violating it will result in an immediate ban and removal of images. No admitting to anything that could cause the server to go under investigation, such as looking at child porn."
Edit : Well, looks like they don't enforce this rule indeed.
Don't be fooled, check the fediseer link provided in the post for examples
Their biggest community is a MAP community where they don't even pretend to not be pedos