• burtek@programming.dev
    62·
    9 months ago

    I think it just auto-discovers federated instances and randomly shows them on the page unless explicitly disabled…

      • superkret@lemmy.ml
        378·
        9 months ago

        The only ones who have to be concerned about the looks are the instance admins.
        Lemmy isn’t a product in need of marketing.

        • Mario_Dies.wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          183·
          9 months ago

          You’re right, but this is the sort of thing that gets blown up by the media and used to shut down privacy-friendly platforms.

          Maybe it’s a slippery slope fallacy on my part, but it’s not unimaginable to consider the idea that legislators could try to take down an enitre platform based on something like this. Just look at some of the proposed privacy-antagonistic legislation that’s been introduced recently to see what I mean.

  • Darkassassin07@lemmy.caEnglish
    54·
    9 months ago

    Seems like the kinda thing that comes down to “because it hasn’t been explicitly told not to yet”. It’s a computer grabbing from an ever changing pool of instances based on parameters, not a person hand picking what they like. Computers aren’t usually aware of social ques or laws…

  • Cyclohexane@lemmy.ml
    344·
    9 months ago

    I don’t have a link, but the lemmy creators (and maintainers of join-lemmy) answered this in a AMA about a month ago. They said they’d prefer the horrible people concentrate in their own instances so we can block them easily rather than have them in our instances. The join lemmy list does not serve as an endorsement, but a catalog of all available instances.

    • MrSpArkle@lemmy.ca
      234·
      9 months ago

      Saying it’s not an endorsement is playing semantic games. Join-lemmy.org is a site that promotes Lemmy, and having this instance there is encouraging new users to hop onboard an instance that encourages people to discuss how best to rape children.

    • jerbid@programming.dev
      71·
      9 months ago

      I think it’s important to add that the answer in that AMA referred to exploding heads (or maybe a different right-wing instance but something like that) and not this one. I’m sure the Lemmy devs would care a lot more about removing links to a pedo instance than a political one

    • dramaticcat@sh.itjust.worksOP
      86·
      9 months ago

      I don’t have a link, but the lemmy creators (and maintainers of join-lemmy) answered this in a AMA about a month ago. They said they’d prefer the horrible people concentrate in their own instances so we can block them easily rather than have them in our instances. The join lemmy list does not serve as an endorsement, but a catalog of all available instances.

      Neither burggit nor comfysnug are shown on the instances page.

    • Bleeping Lobster@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      Sorry if you’ve had to answer this question too much… where can I find out why these instances have been added to the blocklist? Some of them I recognise from previous incidences where someone has flagged them as problematic & provided evidence but some are confusing. I’m nervous about checking them out, but I clicked on one because it sounded very innocuous.

      lemmy.glasgow.social just appears to be an instance discussing social events in Glasgow, Scotland, with additional focus on hacking / computer science… how come it’s been blocked? In the modlog I can see that they had a bit of a user purge about 3 months ago with no actions taken since then. But there’s never been any deleted comments or posts.

  • jerbid@programming.dev
    17·
    9 months ago

    Jesus Christ the first local post I saw after checking it out was a meme about being a MAP from a user called “Matt Walsh”

    I mean that’s hilarious but also damn it really isn’t a queer/kink instance that’s messed up

  • Oka@lemmy.mlEnglish
    13·
    9 months ago

    Thanks to your awareness, its now the most popular listed.

  • FeminalPanda@lemmings.world
    101·
    9 months ago

    Dam, that’s sad. That was the first instance I tried to sign up with but it wouldn’t get past the verified email part. Guess that’s a good thing, I had to look me into it as I thought this post was just another alt right witch hunt for trans people. Maybe a kink instance could be made with hard rules about that stuff. Really a LGBT community with a wiki would be good. I just got on here so maybe something like that already exists.

    • dramaticcat@sh.itjust.worksOP
      134·
      9 months ago

      Guess that’s a good thing, I had to look me into it as I thought this post was just another alt right witch hunt for trans people. Maybe a kink instance could be made with hard rules about that stuff. Really a LGBT community with a wiki would be good. I just got on here so maybe something like that already exists.

      If anything, lemmy is making the LGBTQ+ community look bad by promoting this instance, and I wouldn’t be surprised if there are people pretending to be LGBT over at that instance to make the community look bad.

      • FeminalPanda@lemmings.world
        6·
        9 months ago

        I agree, I hold no ill will to non offenders and hope they get help but the posts on there are not about getting help or coping.

  • Cadenza@lemmy.world
    72·
    9 months ago

    Err, are you sure about your words op? I just looked at their sidebar and it looks pretty clear about that, no?

    Quoting :

    “Nothing illegal under US (specifically Nevada) or local law. You know what that includes. (In case you don’t know what that includes, I mean child pornography [anything that fails the Dost Test], sexually interacting with minors, etc.) We have a zero tolerance policy for anything that fails the Dost test. Anything violating it will result in an immediate ban and removal of images. No admitting to anything that could cause the server to go under investigation, such as looking at child porn.”

    Edit : Well, looks like they don’t enforce this rule indeed.