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I am very disheartened by the number of people replying here who read “a community skirting the line trying to look like CSAM” and felt the need to go purposefully seek out that community to look through its images.

@ada That first warning on which instance this post apply to is greatly appreciated. I wish to see it more often on single instance related posts

FYI it's not directly related but there was a story in the Washington Post today about Twitter rival Mastodon rife with child-abuse material, study finds ... of course 90% of it came from a large Japanese site (presumably pawoo) but they also mentioned some originating on big mainstream sites; and some sites don't block pawoo, so it's potentially in their federated timelines. Here's the underlying report, Child Safety on Federated Social Media

I support this decision.

Thanks for looking out for us, Ada. <3

Reading the explanation, I would purchase you a beverage of your choice if you were local to me.

I hope other instances follow your lead!

Thank you so much, that stuff is disgusting as well as people defending it.

I support the decision (and it contributes towards my decision to move away from lemmy.world since I am mostly on this server anyway) but I think you have the wrong rationale behind this decision. Yes everything you say is valid but you don't need those reasons. Saying that its close to CSAM or that you assumed that it was just puts you in a position where people can criticize your position because maybe they don't see it that way and would not have assumed it to be that if they saw it unprompted (these are terrible arguments but people will make them). The offending community is built on principles that are incompatible with this server. You do not want the server that you host and admin (and its communities) to so closely share a user base with that community given the type of content it encourages, regardless of the legality of that content. Thus you are defederating.

Basically you could be a whole lot more corporate sterile about this messaging.

Whole I am not on your instance, this makes me want to switch. I am fed up with having to block endless amounts of their garbage.