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Cake day: June 8th, 2023

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  • I know this is over but let me add something:
    If it’s not illegal for the region your server is located, then there’s no technical or legal problem; otherwise don’t ask the community, just do what makes you feel comfortable, if another instance was created where some kind of content is problematic, then it’s up to them to move it or defederate, not your problem.
    People are never going to be happy, they will always find some reason to whine and cry when it comes to porn/hentai, their main reason being “legality” and “morality” but will browse piracy instances because that’s completely legal, no gray area at all.

    It’s your instance and limiting it to what you think it’s right it’s enough, other instances with issues will defederate anyway because they want to be able to browse in public or with kids around them without the NSFW filter activated (because that makes fucking sense) so they don’t miss all the gore, violence and graphic news the federation has to offer (because that’s totally acceptable).
    I’m all for making the communities as specific as possible so everyone can filter them out on their own, as the capable adults they are supposed to be (if they are not adults… well I’m sorry their parents don’t care about them and allow them to do whatever).

    All that said, the idea is not allowing content that seems underage, I think that’s good enough and covers the “3000 y/o loli” type of content because if you try to please all the “good christian kids” who try to insult you into doing their bidding, you’ll never be over with it and might as well close the whole instance; people just love throwing the “pedophile” insult at the first opportunity because they know it worries others of being labeled something they are not.

    Make the rules as you see fitting, the community mods should be able to comply with them, make their own and enforce them; whatever the users want usually comes last because 90% of the time the user doesn’t know what they want, they just know they want it, even if it goes against what one could expect in a NSFW place.
    Don’t be afraid of being defederated, right now it’s a hot topic because Beehaw users learned they can and now everyone and their mother wants to defederate; just let them, when they isolate themselves they will be happy and so will be the rest of the federation.


  • Or am I looking at this backwards, and they want their gated garden, absent of slugs?

    You could say that, they have said more than once that they want their instance to be their safe-space, which is cool and all, if their users are all up on defederating at the fall of a leaf along with the mods that’s cool, the “problematic” part are the users that join that instance because it’s big but don’t expect them to be like that, because then they have to drop that account and create another in a different instance.
    But I’ve said it more than once, until we get migration tools think of your account as disposable or prepare to keep multiple accounts to juggle servers.

    That said, I think they would be happier using a forum-like server instead of the fediverse because they seem like the kind of instance to end up isolating themselves.