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I’m kinda surprised that so many instances have defederated from lemmy.nsfw. It’s just porn, right? Who cares?
Maybe I’m naive and missing an important point. If so, I apologize for my ignorance.
Lack of people willing to moderate it? If people want porn there's a million places they can look instead. It makes sense to just remove porn spam from your instance tbh.
Okay. Those all sound like good reasons. Thanks!
i havent seen any of the discussions leading to this, but i assume the sheer amount of images/video takes up a lot of space, so they instances decided to avoid it altogether.
that and potential risks if something particularly unsavory becomes mirrored on your instance.
You can adjust settings in Lemmy to not store other instances media like this, so this shouldn't be a big problem with the right config.
i know blahaj at least defederated it because of "a community for porn of women that appear to be under 18" (direct quotation from a local-only post)
i couldn’t find it myself (there’s a lot of communities on there!) but i’m guessing it’s some sort of "barely legal" porn community, which is gross (but unfortunately very common). so good riddance imo
Ick. That’s a good reason, too.
The way the apps and frontends are setup, its easy enough to use alts for different usecases instead of having porn attached to general instances. Seperating gooner personas from regular is a positive imo. Keep that energy on the nsfw instances, banning them isn't like reddit getting rid of a community, everyone still can sign up and access it on the same app they already use. I always hated scrolling on r/all and seeing porn every 5 posts (nsfw tag covers a lot of non porn) Doesn't mean I don't use reddit for porn, I think I wouldve preferred having an alt there that only showed porn subs and vice versa with my main account showing none. Some seperation is healthy imo.
It's not just porn.
It's pretty much all fetish and kink stuff... At least last time I looked. Including cartoons of children. Maybe worse than cartoons. Noped out quick. Cops find that shit in your cache and you might be going to prison.