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
I think it just auto-discovers federated instances and randomly shows them on the page unless explicitly disabled…
True but it still isn’t a very good look for lemmy.
The only ones who have to be concerned about the looks are the instance admins.
Lemmy isn’t a product in need of marketing.You’re right, but this is the sort of thing that gets blown up by the media and used to shut down privacy-friendly platforms.
Maybe it’s a slippery slope fallacy on my part, but it’s not unimaginable to consider the idea that legislators could try to take down an enitre platform based on something like this. Just look at some of the proposed privacy-antagonistic legislation that’s been introduced recently to see what I mean.
The Fediverse isn’t a platform with a server you can take down, though. That’s the beauty of decentralization.
Good point, yeah
still shouldnt be listed there
Many Lemmy users wish their niche communities would become more populated. For goals like that, the reputation of the platform is important. I also don’t want to get into defensive debates when revealing to someone that I use Lemmy.
Someone should then probably let them know 🤷
Seems like the kinda thing that comes down to “because it hasn’t been explicitly told not to yet”. It’s a computer grabbing from an ever changing pool of instances based on parameters, not a person hand picking what they like. Computers aren’t usually aware of social ques or laws…
That’s correct, its fixed now.
Jesus Christ the first local post I saw after checking it out was a meme about being a MAP from a user called “Matt Walsh”
I mean that’s hilarious but also damn it really isn’t a queer/kink instance that’s messed up
Yeah that lad is pretty active ngl. Atleast Matt knows that being a MAP is pretty hardcore ultra cringe. (https://rqd2.net/post/15585).
(Fuck why am I complimenting degenerates like MAPs?)
The word is pedo. Or goof, or nonce, etc. Let’s not give them any legitimacy by using their language.
I’d never heard of MAP, so just looked it up and went 'so a paedo then". Let’s call a nonce a nonce.
It’s not a real term. It was 4chan trolling.
Ah right, explains a lot.
Thanks to your awareness, its now the most popular listed.
That was an interesting rabbit hole I just went through. There was a post about French postmodern philosophers who defended pedophilia that was posted on that instance as a validation to their cause, meanwhile all the comments under the video are of people recounting their trauma of being sexually assaulted as children.
The French situation just gave me more reasons to dislike Sartre.
I’ll just leave these here…
https://www.rainn.org/news/how-prevent-child-sexual-abuse-material-csam
Dam, that’s sad. That was the first instance I tried to sign up with but it wouldn’t get past the verified email part. Guess that’s a good thing, I had to look me into it as I thought this post was just another alt right witch hunt for trans people. Maybe a kink instance could be made with hard rules about that stuff. Really a LGBT community with a wiki would be good. I just got on here so maybe something like that already exists.
Guess that’s a good thing, I had to look me into it as I thought this post was just another alt right witch hunt for trans people. Maybe a kink instance could be made with hard rules about that stuff. Really a LGBT community with a wiki would be good. I just got on here so maybe something like that already exists.
If anything, lemmy is making the LGBTQ+ community look bad by promoting this instance, and I wouldn’t be surprised if there are people pretending to be LGBT over at that instance to make the community look bad.
I agree, I hold no ill will to non offenders and hope they get help but the posts on there are not about getting help or coping.
Midwest Social?
Not at all. We actually block the offending instance.
Glad to know I joined the right instance
Because join lemmy is run by extremests
Everyone I dislike is a pedophile
Except u/sharkfucker420. They’re a zoophile.
You dislike me? :(
Sharks do.
They are literally self-professed radical communists.
And like, more power to them, but they’ll be the first to tell you that they are proud extremists
I realize that but I don’t think it logically follows that extremist are therefore pedophiles or any more likely to harbor pedophiles
exactly this
This is like criticising a knife enthusiasts group because knives could be used to commit crime.
It’s ok to have a community for kinky people. The fact that certain individuals look at illegal stuff doesn’t mean we should get rid of the instance, nor hide it from people who want to use it.
I do not care if people have a cuckolding, scat or whatever fetish they want, as long as it involves consent of some sort.
Children cannot consent for sexual acts. Being at the recieving end of such actions irrepeairably scars their mental life forever; and any person who’s ok with this deserves torture before death.
If you actually read my post, you would know we’re on the same side.
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Ok, that has literally nothing to do with my argument, which is to not punish person x for what person y does.
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The point of the thread is to hide an instance from search, which punishes more than just the unethical people OP is straw-manning about.
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Sure, but if the knife enthusiasts group is also promoting to you a “Slashing Children With Knives Enthusiasts” group, I think it’s worth criticizing.
And it is absolutely worth hiding from people who want to use it if the group in question is hosting pedophilia.
Speaking as a gay guy, there is an astroturf effort from the alt-right to try to paint the LGBT community as being so “inclusive” as to also include literal pedophiles, as if it’s just another sexuality or kink, and I’d rather prefer to nip that squarely in the bud by drawing a very hard line.
Who’s promoting? This is just a list of the top instances by popularity.
I’m not going to engage with a response that’s completely lacking in any semblance of good faith.
Lacking good faith would be the people trying to punish person x for what person y does, period.
Whose purpose is?
You realize that they host MAP, beastiality, and zoophilia communities?
It’s one thing to host kinky communities (a-ok as long as it’s legal), it’s another to host pedo communities. Check the fediseer link listed in the post for examples.
Hate to ask, but it’s probably better than searching, what’s MAP in this context?
Minor Attracted Person
So you think people with more ethical kinks should be punished because unethical communities exist?
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I am defending the ethical users having a place to go.
The ones who are “hell-bent” are the ones eager to use their pitchforks on the entire instance, ethical or otherwise.
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You don’t get to decide what I am defending.
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being a pedo is not a kink. don’t really understand why it’s that hard to understand.
What you are doing is called the straw man fallacy. Obvs pedophilia isn’t a kink, and you would know I wasn’t defending it if you had good reading comprehension skills.
Yeah I guess when your dumass said “It’s ok to have a community for kinky people.” I mistakenly thought that you meant that pedos are a kink community. Honestly don’t know how I could have misread that. fuckwit
No, it’s like criticising a murder enthusiasts group because murder is a crime.
You’re right that the post is badly written, because it just sorta says “this is a place that promotes paraphilia!” But in this particular case, this server hosts reprehensible content and is not just a community for kinky people that happens to have pedos on it.
It’s like if there were a knife enthusiast instance where the largest local community was about committing crime, where the admin self-identifies as being into commiting crimes. It’s absolutely true most knife enthusiasts have no interest in committing crime, and therefore the knife enthusiasts who don’t want to commit crime probably wouldn’t join the server that promotes crime.
The analogy falls apart a bit because it’s true that they’re not doing anything illegal over there, at least not publicly. But they’re still promoting viewing kids sexually, promoting sexual contact with kids, even talking about nude photos of kids.
Ok, pedos are here now.
I’m more of a milf guy but keep pushing your narrative if it makes you feel special.
