cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/6400327
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
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I wish people would inform themselves before they jump to conclusions. If you don’t want to look at the instance that’s fine and understandable (and probably for the best). But don’t make assumptions and try to immediately spread discord without even trying to look at what you are talking about first. Otherwise it is you who is fanning the flames of hatred.
They share links to pedophilic material, they have a “smash or pass” thread for lolis, openly discuss how sex with children “isn’t always harmful”, consider themselves “transage” and therefore as good partners for minors etc. etc.
Yeah I’m deleting this app now. I love a nice alternative to reddit, but considering how much unblurred porn bleeds through to my timeline with no provocation, I really don’t want to run the risk of something truely heinous like whatever is associated with this making it to my Frontpage.
You have an account on an instance with a very active admin team. We were even the first one to report this specific instance to the rest of the admins. We didn’t do it in public to not give them any kind of exposure.
As others in this thread have suggested, you can disable NSFW communities completely by disabling the NSFW flag in your user settings.
Bye, hope you can figure out the one simple checkbox that blocks all that stuff on whatever other aggregator you end up on.
It’s honestly depressing at how Lemmy has turned over the last few months since I joined. I would now never mention I use the site or recommend it to others. There’s just too many fucking landmines for new users to step over to have a good experience here.
I’m sticking with it for the time being, but I don’t see myself ever using it again if it gets worse.
You can simply block NSFW, you can do it in your settings
Might be wise to reverse the default. Those who want can enable it.All fine, answers clarified.
That’s how it is. Even on the largest porn instance (lemmynsfw.com), you need to check the box explicitly on the sign up page. (And on the second biggest I know of (pornlemmy.com) there’s a full page consent splash screen before even you can even reach the sign up page.
The thread starter is complaining about posts which should be marked as NSFW, but are not. I personally haven’t noticed any of that, but I mostly stick to “subscribed” views instead of “All”
That’s how Lemmy works already. When you register, the registration page gives the option to enable NSFW - i.e. it is off by default. (At least on lemmy.world and on dbzer0, I haven’t checked other instances but I believe they work the same, except the porn instances.)
If it helps, I use kbin.social (and its PWA for mobile browsing) and haven’t seen any porn at all in my feed. I assume it’s filtered out by default, but I haven’t checked. I don’t get any of the extreme political stuff in my feed either.
Yep. Kbin is the way.
Yep, there was some in the early days but nowadays it seems to be gone to the point I think it’s bugged and hiding all NSFW content regardless of your profile setting.
I occasionally see something tagged as “18+”, although it’s never been porn. I have wondered if it’s bugged, too, but I don’t really mind either way - there are other websites that are far, far better for porn if that’s what I’m looking for. Maybe there’s some great non-porn, non-gore content that I’ve been missing out on, but I think the chances are fairly slim.
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Go to “Communities”
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Select “All”
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Subscribe to any & all communities that interest you
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Click on your username and select “Settings”
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Scroll down to “Type” and select “Subscribed”
Congratulations, your front page now only consists of content you explicitly asked for.
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Kbin is much better. I don’t see any porn.
Lemmy user here, I don’t see it either… The guy has bad settings
You don’t see porn on the front page of lemmy either, if you used the “subscribed” view, instead of treating “ALL” as if it doesn’t contain everything.
I look at “everything” and it shows everything people around the world have made, good and bad, how dare they!
I want to use zero amount of effort and have it catered to exactly what I like! But I don’t want to be tracked or have any algorithms knowing what I like!
I initially thought this was an LGBT witch hunt. But unfortunately I have been shown that there actually is promotion of pedophilia there.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]
You really made about 20 comments before doing even a basic amount of due dilligence, huh?
I apologize, I thought I did, I read the rules, and I read on the frontpage, and it seemed pretty harmless.
And there were no posts here that showed anything actually wrong, but mostly what seemed like knee jerk reactions to the accusation.
Had I dug one step deeper, I would have found it. But my diligence wasn’t diligent enough, and I wrongfully concluded it was an anti LGBT issue.
Turns out I was mistaken, and yes I was a bit slow to figure that out.
Respect 👍
More people need to learn how to gracefully accept mistake like you did, even myself.
Thank you. 😀 This mistake was a really bad one. I do NOT support pedophilia, but it may have looked like it. So better to admit fault.
But I also believe truth is more important than ego.
At least you can admit you were wrong and change your mind. Those abilities are all too rare.
Thank you. 😀
I hate people like that, they make the rest of us look terrible
This is not acceptable in any way, shape, or form
To be completely honest, I’d rather use reddit and have to deal with the shitty client than having to constantly worry about pedos like here on lemmy
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I’ve yet to see anything but posts about this issue, so I’m confused by comments like this. I’m a daily user some days heavily and have been for a couple months.
There are pedos all over Reddit. Even on the admin team. So…
Yeah, no. I’m defeding with them.
Why must people do things like this it makes us all look bad
It’s intentional, that flag was made by 4channers trying to push the “MAPs are part of the LGBTQ community” line, specifically to confuse with resemblance to the trans pride flag.
Of course it is/was
If you’re gonna screw kids why not screw everyone else too
Personally I think we should have a MAP flag…
It should be grey, black and orange.
Grey and black represents the bars, orange represents the jumpsuit.
Pedophilia is a crime, not a sexuality, and the day this becomes a controversial statement is the day humanity is officially unworthy of its continued existence as a species.
I mean this is real free speech. We might find what they say and talk about horrible. But that’s what real free speech gets you
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and we’re all free to say fuck off.
Exactly
Great strawman but no, this is not free speech, this is illegal content and laws exist to prosecute those who disseminate it. Free speech allows you to offend others … it doesn’t give you a pass to break the law.
As I said I find the whole trying to pass off pedophilia as something normal horrible. That doesn’t mean that them having their own instances and communities isn’t part of free speech.
Real free speech isn’t censored by law.
Again I’m just making an observation here it doesn’t mean I’m okay with this happening but this is what we signed up for, liberty has a cost.
As far as I’m concerned those people should be put on a police watch list and have all their post be read by their local authorities lol
freedom of speech means that the government cannot censor you. Lemmy is not the government
The only about the Devil’s Advocate I’m willing to give for someone who is attracted to children, is that I think they should be provided services to designed to prevent them from attacking people, and that they should be free to seek therapy to minimize their chances of attacking others without scrutiny.
But that’s the end of my symapthy anyone willing to force themselves upon a minor literally does not deserve to live.
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The largest community is a pedophile community. What more do you need?
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Doesn’t look like the users read that rule
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This has nothing to do with LGBTQ+ people and your instance already defederated from them.
If anything, allowing join lemmy to promote that instance makes the LGBTQ+ community look bad.
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That instance list is built completely automatically by a crawler, no one approves instances before they are listed. In this case it was removed as soon as we became aware of it. Next time please make a pull request like that one, its much more effective than complaining.
That really surprises me considering their the lemmy devs’ leftist political beliefs
They’re authoritarian leftists, who support Putin. They have more in common with fascists than most people do.
They’re as leftist as the “communist” China. Or as “socialist” as the Nazis were. Just because someone calls themselves “communist” or “socialist”, doesn’t mean it’s true. And if you support China, Nazis, Soviet Union or its successor Russia, you’re not a communist or socialist.
That’s the thing with being pro free speech - it means not censoring speech you hate.
Things quickly get complicated when the speech is (potentially) harmful.
This isn’t a censorship issue. This is a choice about whether to publicise and promote pedophiles or not. No website has a right to be included in join-lemmy listings.
I didn’t take them to be free speech absolutists, though.
It looks like the instance has only existed for about a month, so it’s not too surprising it hasn’t been noticed before now.
They already removed pedo instances before, so they’ll probably remove this one. They seem to draw a much harder line on pedophilia than politics.
CSAM will bring negative law enforcement attention, whereas nazi content will get you a big thumbs-up from the cops.
edit: Downvoted by cops
The pedophile community is the largest local community and that should be all you need to know.
EDIT: Relevant discussion over on reddit
Great, this just makes us look bad. We need to do something to stop the bad and we need to overshadow the bad with good
I hate that people associate things in this way. Like if I see a bad website I don’t think “wow Linux really sucks” or Nginx or Cloudflare or whatever other technologies they’re using. I don’t watch a bad movie and think the Blu-ray player is the problem.
Yeah, part of the problem is people thinking Lemmy is one thing instead of a web of lots of things but I still agree with you
Reddit had r/jailbait and the r/ the Donald. This instance is just a turd in a ocean of normal and niche communities.
That’s just disgusting. This is why aliens won’t talk to us.
I mean, pedos do have a place they belong. A woodchipper. Feet first.
Slowly.
Lemmy really really needs instance blocking. Yes I know some clients have it but Lemmy itself needs a way to enable users to fully block another instance and all of its communities.
It’s on the roadmap for 0.19, so coming hopefully in a few weeks
Jesus mother of fuck
Locking post as comments have gotten extremely off topic and hostile.
