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[–] [email protected] 213 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Jesus one is just called pedo school. What the actual fuck

[–] [email protected] 88 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The internet. It's a fucked up place. Nothing like what the big players on the internet would have you believe.

So long as there exists a way for people to not get prosecuted, these things will exist.

[–] [email protected] 76 points 11 months ago

Realistically, the more accessible the internet becomes the more it reflects the behavior of humanity at large.

These things exist because they're part of us. The internet probably makes them more visible, but I doubt it makes them more extant.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How to spot a honey pot 101

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[–] [email protected] 160 points 11 months ago (3 children)

This is a real rogues gallery of internet. And… a soccer team from Detroit. What the fuck did those guys do?

[–] [email protected] 139 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Enjoy soccer - the most heinous of social crimes

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 11 months ago (2 children)

As someone from Detroit, I checked out the link for that instance, and uhhhh I wish I hadn't.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I did the same. I was thinking, "cool, an instance close to home... Oh God.. no... No no no"

[–] [email protected] 50 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What was it? This list really piques my curiosity but I know it’s better not to look….

[–] [email protected] 53 points 11 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 154 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Makes me kinda wish that when defederating you could select a one word label for why. Like a fixed list with several options like pedo, spam, harassment, abandoned, etc and a default of other. Make it a bit easier with a big list like this to say, oh 1000 of these 1400 all selected "racism" when defederating so it's probably very racist and I should also defederate. But if it's a lot of "other" or inconsistent reasons maybe I should spend a bit of time digging.

[–] [email protected] 148 points 11 months ago (24 children)

You're looking for this: https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/censured. Us instance admin can also endorse other instances.

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[–] [email protected] 139 points 11 months ago (1 children)

half are pedo servers 💀

[–] [email protected] 105 points 11 months ago (2 children)

And the rest are racist.

Took a look through some of the ones with tame names out of morbid curiosity; not that interesting tbh. Just hope I'm not on a watchlist now.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 11 months ago (10 children)

Last time I checked reading a racist comment makes you a racist

[–] [email protected] 41 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 29 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I'm the biggest racist of them all 🚗🚗🚗🚘🚘🚘🏎🏎🏎 I race all cars

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[–] [email protected] 122 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The name “cum.salon” just kills me

[–] [email protected] 124 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (7 children)

freespeechextremist
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freecumextremist

got me

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I've never heard of any of these.

Awesome

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 11 months ago (52 children)

Huh. I would have bet Lemmygrad would be up there somewehre.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Places like Lemmygrad and Hexbear are actually pretty benign. They're just on the verge of being acceptable to people so they make a lot of noise and cause a lot of drama but in terms of the actual bad actors... well, as you can see, they don't even rate.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 11 months ago (6 children)

I think this highlights what people think when they hear "defederating" vs its actual purpose. It's controversial when it's between serious instances that people actually use but with wildly incompatible opinions, but there's very few objections when it's blocking CSAM!

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 11 months ago (8 children)

I think lemmygrad isn’t that bad considering pedo.school is halfway through the list.

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 11 months ago (12 children)

I wonder how many of these are defederated from each other too.

Is it all unity among the nazi-pedos or are they fighting amongst each other?

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 11 months ago

This actually gives me hope. The biggest Instances coming together to stand up for good values and fight off vermin like Nazis, Pedos and other pests of Humanity.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 11 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 49 points 11 months ago (1 children)

TIL there's a LOT of instances that lemmy world etc are not federated with... For good reason

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[–] ICastFist 46 points 11 months ago (6 children)

seal.cafe, cawfee.club and sleepy.cafe sure got welcoming names. Given the number of defederations, I doubt the contents are anything like the names.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Most of them were automatically defederated for not having adequate protection against bot signups, that got nothing to do with sketchy content.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 11 months ago (12 children)

The owner of poa.st, Graf is cringe and an idiot.

pawoo.net got taken down for CSAM.

The people behind Gab can't code themselves out of a paper beg. They got hacked 3 times.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 11 months ago (4 children)

This should include a user count in each so we can see just how many pedos and nazis are being punted to their own little disgusting bubbles

[–] [email protected] 41 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (9 children)

A little correction: while some of pedo instances are full of potential child abusers, others are based on non-offending (i.e. stop fucking children ffs) principles.

The latter are actually extremely important since they provide a gateway for otherwise potentially dangeous individuals to gain support and find professional help. Trying to instead blindly seed hatred towards people with any immutable traits is never productive, be it any mental disorder, sexuality, or otherwise, same as race and gender. In this case, it only prevents pedophiles from seeking help, making them more likely to become the child predator type and actually pose danger to kids.

Being a pedophile is not a choice. Being a Nazi or a child abuser are, and those should fuck themselves (but also reconsider what they do and what they believe in).

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 11 months ago (3 children)

This is why I believe federation should be an opt-in process rather than servers being federated by default.

Some of you may remember when Lemmy World was flooded with CSAM by other hostile instances and had to temporarily disable image uploads.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 11 months ago (8 children)

That would destroy the already limited content of the fedi. It's like people hate content discovery for some reason.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 11 months ago (3 children)

there are peoples who create instances for their families, who is going to manually federate with all these small instances?

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 11 months ago

Lemmy supports both blacklist and whitelist federation, but the only large instance that uses whitelist federation as far as I know currently is Hexbear.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Some of these im... Curious about. Presumably the names are dog whistles (when they're not just openly stating their purpose)... But IDK the whistle so I'm curious af.

Not curious enough to get put on some list by actually checking them out though lol

[–] [email protected] 61 points 11 months ago (8 children)

Most of these are gonna be pedo/lolicon stuff, closely followed by unmoderated hate and spam instances.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It's funny/sad the stark contrast between the ones where you can't really tell why they're defederated from just the name vs the ones where it's extremely obvious (and how little in-between there is)

[–] [email protected] 29 points 11 months ago (10 children)

Not aware of any of these, which is nice, but iddqd caught my eye since that's a Doom reference! Overall I always thought the Doom community was pretty positive (at least going by Doomworld forums, and various Doom streamers, as I remember them). I thought surely it must be some misunderstanding! Oh maybe they didn't reply quickly enough to take down some drive-by hate speech, but that was it.

Anyway, holy shit, do not go to that lemmy instance. It's rotten to the core. I'm going to go take a shower and play through Episode 1 to cleanse myself now.

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