Edit - This is a post to the meta group of Blåhaj Lemmy. It is not intended for the entire lemmyverse. If you are not on Blåhaj Lemmy and plan on dropping in to offer your opinion on how we are doing things in a way you don’t agree with, your post will be removed.
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A user on our instance reported a post on lemmynsfw as CSAM. Upon seeing the post, I looked at the community it was part of, and immediately purged all traces of that community from our instance.
I approached the admins of lemmynsfw and they assured me that the models with content in the community were all verified as being over 18. The fact that the community is explicitly focused on making the models appear as if they’re not 18 was fine with them. The fact that both myself and one a member of this instance assumed it was CSAM, was fine with them. I was in fact told that I was body shaming.
I’m sorry for the lack of warning, but a community skirting the line trying to look like CSAM isn’t a line I’m willing to walk. I have defederated lemmynsfw and won’t be reinstating it whilst that community is active.
To me the community in question seems to be intended to be about cute/happy/wholesome nsfw content but I can see how that idea could be twisted by pedophiles who fetishize “innocence”. But no matter what the intended nature of that community, lemmynsfw is host to a few other extremely awful communities, like one for posting pictures of people you know without their knowledge/consent, and it seems like the admins are either not interested or not able to moderate all of it.
Plus the federated timeline sorted by new is just clogged with bots on lemmynsfw spamming images from reddit
I’m pretty sure posting pictures of people you know without their consent is explicitly against LemmyNSFW’s rules, and not only that it’s liable to get them in some serious legal trouble. Doesn’t seem like a good sign for their platform if that’s on there…