We are federated with the paedophile instance people have been complaining about. And I don’t think I want to wait until their content starts showing in my time line. We need an admin ASAP or jump ship.
See here: https://sh.itjust.works/post/6400367
We are federated with the paedophile instance people have been complaining about. And I don’t think I want to wait until their content starts showing in my time line. We need an admin ASAP or jump ship.
See here: https://sh.itjust.works/post/6400367
I did a dive on that instance, it’s about a month old and not super active so you can pretty much browse down all of the posts all the way back to the start. There is a diversity of discussion regarding from weird trans identities to extreme sexual desires and kinks. And yes, a good percentages of the posts openly talk about being sexually attracted to minors and it is filled with discussions trying to normalize and justify having sex with kids.
The problem runs much deeper than one instance, unfortunately. This thread is full of people insisting that AI-generated CSAM should be legal (and thus normalised).
To be clear, I’m quite prepared to believe that at least some of those posters have not thought it through and just don’t have a good grasp of structural influences on behaviour, rather than having any personal interest in this sort of material. That kind of simplistic ultra-individualism is common on the Fediverse, unfortunately. But there is a culture problem when this sort of undergraduate philosophising gets so little pushback, and provides cover for much more sinister motivations.
With apologies to Gramsci, social media is dying and its replacement cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.