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One of the admins at lemmy.blahaj.zone asked us to purge a community and all of
its users because they thought it was full of child sexual abuse material, aka
CSAM, fka kiddy porn. We assured them that we had checked this comm thoroughly
and we were satisfied that all of the models on it were of age. The admin then
demanded we purge the comm because they mistook it for CSAM, and claimed that
the entire point of the community was to make people think it was CSAM. We
vehemently disagreed that that was in fact the point of the community, but they
decided to defederate from us anyway. That is of course their choice, but we
will not purge our communities or users because someone else makes a mistake of
fact, and then lays the responsibility for their mistake at our feet. If someone
made a community intended to fool people into thinking it was kiddy porn, that
would be a real problem. If someone of age goes online and pretends – not
roleplays, but pretends with intent to deceive – to be a child and makes porn,
that is a real problem. Nobody here is doing that. One of the reasons we run our
instance the way that we do is that we want it to be inclusive. We don’t body
shame, and we believe that all adults have a right to sexual expression. That
means no adult on our instance is too thin, fat, bald, masculine, old, young,
cis, gay, etc., to be sexy, and that includes adults that look younger than some
people think they should. Everyone has a right to lust and to be lusted after.
There’s no way to draw a line that says “you can’t like adult people that look
like X” without crossing a line that we will not cross. EDIT: OK, closing this
post to new comments. Everything that needs saying has been said. Link to my
convo with the blahaj admin here [https://lemmynsfw.com/comment/683520].
Damn, lotta people here are thirsty for drama. Who cares if they defederated, no one in here is actually a blahaj.zone member, how about you let the users from that instance complain about it if they want to? I find it kinda weird that you’re all jumping on the admin for not wanting to be associated with that instance when it doesn’t concern you at all.
Isn’t that the beauty of the fediverse? None of you are affected by this. What is it that you want? For all instances to be the same? What’s even the point of making your own instance then?
Y’all are fucking weirdos fr. OP doth protest too much.
I was on that instance and unfortunately had to migrate, but after seeing how the admin handled this, I’m glad I did.
This hurt my feelings
Sry I didn’t mean to :(
You do realize that many people on this instance participate in blahaj.zone communities, right? Why call people ‘weirdos’ for actually caring about how the communities and instances which they interact with are ran?
I feel like you’re being unnecessarily inflammatory here. People are entitled to discuss whatever they want to when it comes to the Fediverse in this community, and this topic falls well within that category. No need to attack people for sharing their opinions on the matter.
Of course people have a right to discuss whatever they want, but the fake outrage is a bit much.
The fediverse runs on drama and fake outrage. There’s whole communities dedicated to talking about the latest fedi drama.
Yeah, but some people love unnecessary drama. It’s the reason most social media has gotten where it has. Stupid drama does nothing but stress me out and make me more of a misanthrope so I try to avoid it.
100% correct take