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Most (all?) Lemmy instances are hosted by individuals doing it for personal interest. I assume many admins don't want the legal liability of random users possibly posting illegal NSFW material.
I think it's partly a demographic thing, too. lemmynsfw.com came into existence with the initial Reddit exodus, as did most Lemmy instances. Lemmy was apparently a pretty quiet place until three weeks ago.
Lol yeah this place was nuts before the exodus. It was mostly marxists simping for Mao and Stalin and you'd regularly find 2yo posts at the top. Couldn't convince anyone else to join either because they'd go check it out, see people claiming that the holodomor, tienanmen square, and the armenian genocide never happened, and support for "the Z warriors" who are "fighting ukranian nazis and western imperialism," and understandably they'd nope right the fuck out.
I'm so fucking glad all of you came to this platform to make it usable. Seriously, thank each and every one of you.
A 2-year user! You are a rare one indeed.
Old man time
Weeellll I just migrated here from lemmy.ml but that acct is probably 2y old by now. There's graybeards here older than me that I still bump into every so often too! Back then it was so slow the most populated communities (well, I avoided the communist ones, so the most popular "normal" ones like c/linux or c/memes) had like 30 users a month, most communities like c/books had much less. One single dude posted almost all of the stuff in c/worldnews and a few other communities lol. Shit was kinda wild, but I'm definitely glad for the reddit exodus bringing new life in! You dern kids stay on my lawn!
That last sentence made me laugh, thanks :)
This must play a huge role. Given how Lemmy works, illegal content is actively being hosted on your server, that's a huge risk, surely. I wouldn't touch hosting porn on any server I owned or administered with a ten foot pole.
Plus, all it takes is some moron posting a picture of an underage girl. If you don't catch and remove it quick enough, boom, you're hosting CP and in a world of trouble. Not worth the liability.
Not reporting it can get you a pretty hefty fine. And even if you do report it there are specific challenges regarding storing the evidence and what data you must collect and it's all a gigantic mess.
The fact that there is even one instance that are willing to go through all this is more than I expected.
https://the-federation.info/platform/73
Yeah -- some of the most popular instance graphs are like a whole month old haha.
This nobody wants to have to deal with the possibility of legal issues of hosting child porn because some creepy person posts it to there site nothing stoping a porn company from hosting there own instance and then they can charge people for it