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.
Control where? How? What staff? You don't seem to grasp the most basic of fedi-premises.
This is not and never will be "user-centric" in the neoliberal sense. What of the admins control? What of their time, money, and effort spent to host the instance. What of the risks they take?
Did you even miss the part where you can host an instance yourself, if you can't find one that caters to your desires?
If I wanted full control I would spin up my own private instance. But instead I'm registered on blahaj.zone because I expect admins to remove unwanted content (transphobia, csam, etc) and I appreciate their work
Agreed. As someone who briefly did set up their own instance, there's a reason why I'm back on this account.