Yesterday, lemmy.blahaj.zone announced their defederation from lemmynsfw.com and argued that lemmynsfw don’t care enough about CSAM.

Although I think lemmynsfw is right about this, that’s not the point. I believe lemmy.blahaj.zone is an instance caught in the positivity echo chamber (to put it more roughly, circle jerk).

You can never interact negatively with their decisions or thoughts. Downvotes disabled. Admin literally removing any opposing view while keeping positive ones.

Check this comment: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/1336587

Admin removed the comment while keeping reply of it and commenting with Exactly this. Dear friend, we don’t know the main comment so how can we agree any of them?

IDK. I think it is very annoying for an instance built on diversity to have such reactions. Is it just me thinking like that? Am I the stupid one here?

Note: Posting this here so admins won’t be able to remove.

Edit: I guess I should add this. IDC should they defederate or not. I just don’t liked their behaviour.

  • Max-P@lemmy.max-p.meEnglish
    91·
    1 year ago

    Just my two cents as the admin of my own private instance: I’ve been on the fence about defederating lemmynsfw and other NSFW instances for a while.

    People might not agree with the decision on a personal basis, but we’re all liable here as admins for any content that can be accessed from our instances, because when you browse remote communities, it’s presented from your domain and from your systems. We understand how it works and how we shouldn’t be responsible for it, but the courts might not. Try explaining the fediverse to boomer judges and a jury, especially when CSAM is potentially involved.

    I can 100% understand why they’d err on the side of caution. There’s a reason there’s so few NSFW instances: it’s legal hell. Some countries are a lot more strict on that stuff too, maybe lemmynsfw has the means to deal with lawsuits and keep the sketchy stuff like loli/shota/child-looking, maybe blahaj don’t.

    And that’s fine, you probably should make an account just for lemmynsfw anyway.