Nothing to see here, just join lemmy promoting a pedophile instance. Not a good look for the fediverse

That instance list is built completely automatically by a crawler, no one approves instances before they are listed. In this case it was removed as soon as we became aware of it. Next time please make a pull request like that one, its much more effective than complaining.

The instances page at join-lemmy is completely automated
This definitely needs to get pushed to the two main devs for lemmy as they control that website
- I wouldn't hold your breath, they didn't even want to remove the Nazi instance in their AMA.
  Edit: To the responses, great, it's gone. Removing that pedo content shows that they're not too overworked to purge content like that from join-lemmy. So there's no reason for them not to remove the Nazi instances being advertised on the front page of join-lemmy. We'll just look the other way on that one I guess.
  
  Yet they did remove other pedo instances from join-lemmy, so there's a good chance it'll get removed.
  
  This fix was already merged
  https://github.com/LemmyNet/joinlemmy-site/pull/247
- That just seems like asking for trouble to me. Anyone could spin up NaziHellHole.com and get added to the list.
  
  or if exploding heads came back and got tons of new users

Holy fuck.
I was a teacher for a private company at 17. I taught kids aged 6-14. A couple of my students I had occasional intrusive sexual thoughts about.
She was 8, which was way below my AoA of 12+, and she certainly hadn’t started puberty. But she was attractive. She made me nervous, I thought about her everyday, I envisioned what we’d do together–she was just like any crush to me, only instead of an adult, she was a kid. But does that really make a difference? She was a person. What should age have to do with love? Eventually shit happened.
They even call it the pediverse.
- Hello! I’m AR15U! I’m the owner of rqd2.net! I’m transgender and transrace, and questioning transage and transabled. I’m a MAP as well
  What in the unmitigated fuck is this? How can someone be so ridiculous... transrace? Transage?! Transabled?!! Is this some sort of weird roleplay to make trans people look silly?
  Appropriate gif
  
  It wouldn't surprise me at all to find out that they are trying to make trans people look bad.
  
  4Chan is obsessed with linking pedophiles and trans/lgbt peoples.
  Just from reading that description I would confidently assume the entire site is being faked.
  
  It reads like one of those 4chan pranks actually gaining followers.
  
  It's Poe's Law in action. I'm mostly fairly accepting, but that is a straight up caricature and joke. Not one in particularly good taste, either.
  
  Mentally ill is much easier to say
  
  Unfortunately, there are actually people like this.
  "Transabled" is a term some people use that wish to be disabled. There were even cases of people who paid doctors illegally to amputate a limb or they hurt themselves.
  "Transage" are people who believe they actually have a different age. For example they feel like they are really 13. Some of them use that to justify relationships with minors.
  They try to piggyback on the trans movement and present mental acrobatics in a whole new dimension of fucked up to explain why they are supposedly similar to people who are trans. (Which they really obviously aren't, I think that doesn't need explaining.)
  And you can bet on it that trolls and right wingers use these obscure group of mentally unwell people to attack LGBTQ people and movements.
- What. In. The. Actual. Fuck.
  How can someone be so damn open about being such a terrible living being? I feel like I'm gonna puke.
  
  How can someone be so damn open about being such a terrible living being?
  mohammad they even have a religion after it. many pedophiles are now converting to islam because of it.
- My day was far better before reading this.
- What's horrifying is the amount of pedo apologists on some lemmy instances. They screech that as long as they aren't touching kids they're free to be attracted to kids because it's not hurting anyone. Anyone that looks at a kid and thinks sexual thoughts already crossed a line and should never be allowed access to children or the internet. Horrifying. Pedo is not a sexual orientation.
  
  They screech that as long as they aren’t touching kids they’re free to be attracted to kids because it’s not hurting anyone
  The person in the quote you're responding to is saying they actually abused a child and are defending that act. IMO this in particular should be much more harshly condemned; communities of people excusing and telling each other it's ok to abuse children.
- what’s aoa
  
  Age of Attraction
- Makes me wanna puke 🤮
- somebody call insane clown posse
  
  Why? I know how magnets work.
- there are lead pills that cure this condition permanently
- But does that really make a difference?
  yes

Lemmy really really needs instance blocking. Yes I know some clients have it but Lemmy itself needs a way to enable users to fully block another instance and all of its communities.
- It's on the roadmap for 0.19, so coming hopefully in a few weeks
- Luckily we have fediseer, which we use to automatically block instances with, for example, the csam tag.
  https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/lemmy.world

It's a disgusting, terrible instance. Back when I added them to our blocklist and fediseer they even had pedobear on display as if they were proud. They have a MAP community and Pedo memes.
The link posted by OP has our findings in it with a few of their posts on an archive site for those who don't want to go to the instance directly: (https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/rqd2.net)

Yeah, no. I'm defeding with them.
Why must people do things like this it makes us all look bad
- Honestly shit that blatant makes me think agent provocateur.
  
  Bro they're all like this heres one I just found
  They're so absurdly crazy I almost believe it's satirical even though I know they're probably being honest with their opinions
  
  Sadly not all of them are. I looked at the instance and clicked on a post where they share some book that collects "positive examples of grownup-child sexual relationships". With a huge rabbit hole attached I won't descend further into. This is legit some dark corner of the internet shit.
- It's intentional, that flag was made by 4channers trying to push the "MAPs are part of the LGBTQ community" line, specifically to confuse with resemblance to the trans pride flag.
  
  Personally I think we should have a MAP flag...
  It should be grey, black and orange.
  Grey and black represents the bars, orange represents the jumpsuit.
  Pedophilia is a crime, not a sexuality, and the day this becomes a controversial statement is the day humanity is officially unworthy of its continued existence as a species.
  
  Of course it is/was
  If you're gonna screw kids why not screw everyone else too
- I suggest you use fediseer on your instance if you want to keep up.
  
  What exactly do you mean? I've been meaning to set up Fediseer but I haven't gotten around to learning about it, and would appreciate any guidance you could give me
- The only about the Devil's Advocate I'm willing to give for someone who is attracted to children, is that I think they should be provided services to designed to prevent them from attacking people, and that they should be free to seek therapy to minimize their chances of attacking others without scrutiny.
  But that's the end of my symapthy anyone willing to force themselves upon a minor literally does not deserve to live.
- I mean this is real free speech. We might find what they say and talk about horrible. But that's what real free speech gets you
  
  and we're all free to say fuck off.
  
  Great strawman but no, this is not free speech, this is illegal content and laws exist to prosecute those who disseminate it. Free speech allows you to offend others .. it doesn't give you a pass to break the law.
  
  freedom of speech means that the government cannot censor you. Lemmy is not the government

The pedophile community is the largest local community and that should be all you need to know.
EDIT: Relevant discussion over on reddit
- That's just disgusting. This is why aliens won't talk to us.
- Great, this just makes us look bad. We need to do something to stop the bad and we need to overshadow the bad with good
  
  I hate that people associate things in this way. Like if I see a bad website I don't think "wow Linux really sucks" or Nginx or Cloudflare or whatever other technologies they're using. I don't watch a bad movie and think the Blu-ray player is the problem.

I initially thought this was an LGBT witch hunt. But unfortunately I have been shown that there actually is promotion of pedophilia there.
https://rqd2.net/c/map
- You really made about 20 comments before doing even a basic amount of due dilligence, huh?
  
  I apologize, I thought I did, I read the rules, and I read on the frontpage, and it seemed pretty harmless.
  And there were no posts here that showed anything actually wrong, but mostly what seemed like knee jerk reactions to the accusation.
  Had I dug one step deeper, I would have found it. But my diligence wasn't diligent enough, and I wrongfully concluded it was an anti LGBT issue.
  Turns out I was mistaken, and yes I was a bit slow to figure that out.
  
  He even reported people lol
  We were about to ban him for being a pedo apologist because of it. Luckily we did look a little deeper and saw that he had a realisation ;)
- Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !map@rqd2.net

Sorry but what's a MAP?
- Pedophile (stands for Minor Attracted Person)
  
  Thanks. I hate politically correct language like this
- It is like your screen name but without the "r"

- Looking at the instance, it's horrifying, like 90% about fucking kids. They're not even trying to hide it, so regardless of other legal paraphilia, it IS a pedo community... so you'll be put on the watch lists too by joining.

people need to be on top of this shit to ban it with extreme prejudice

I hate people like that, they make the rest of us look terrible
This is not acceptable in any way, shape, or form

Jesus mother of fuck

How long has it been there? Months?
The lemmy.ml devs were ok with Nazi instances being on join-lemmy "because people can just choose to join a different instance if they want" (or words to that effect) so it'll be interesting to see how far they take that line of reasoning.
- It looks like the instance has only existed for about a month, so it's not too surprising it hasn't been noticed before now.
  They already removed pedo instances before, so they'll probably remove this one. They seem to draw a much harder line on pedophilia than politics.
  
  CSAM will bring negative law enforcement attention, whereas nazi content will get you a big thumbs-up from the cops.
  edit: Downvoted by cops
- That really surprises me considering their the lemmy devs' leftist political beliefs
  
  They're authoritarian leftists, who support Putin. They have more in common with fascists than most people do.
  
  That's the thing with being pro free speech - it means not censoring speech you hate.
  Things quickly get complicated when the speech is (potentially) harmful.
  
  They're as leftist as the "communist" China. Or as "socialist" as the Nazis were. Just because someone calls themselves "communist" or "socialist", doesn't mean it's true. And if you support China, Nazis, Soviet Union or its successor Russia, you're not a communist or socialist.

- I wish people would inform themselves before they jump to conclusions. If you don't want to look at the instance that's fine and understandable (and probably for the best). But don't make assumptions and try to immediately spread discord without even trying to look at what you are talking about first. Otherwise it is you who is fanning the flames of hatred.
  They share links to pedophilic material, they have a "smash or pass" thread for lolis, openly discuss how sex with children "isn't always harmful", consider themselves "transage" and therefore as good partners for minors etc. etc.

What the fuck... I'm just honestly taken aback by how in your face and blatant they are. Doing everything there but posting abuse content itself. Guess it's a good thing they're willingly putting themselves on the watch lists.

Maybe I don't know enough, but I think this is FUD.

rqd2.net rule 3:
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.
Unfortunately I have been shown that there is promotion of pedophilia on that site. Although there may not be actually illegal content.
https://rqd2.net/c/map
- Just because they aren't directly hosting illegal content, doesn't make it danger free. They freely encourage 'pro contact' as if it isn't a very strong possibility that, when someone is in contact with a person they're attracted to, they may well ... take the next step.
  
  Well yeah, that's what pro contact means. Pro sexual contact. They don't think there's any inherent problem with sexual relationships between adults and kids.
  "Pro contact" is just a polite way to say it, obfuscating what they're really talking about.
  
  Yes I see that now.
- No admitting to anything that could cause the server to go under investigation, such as looking at child porn.
  This says all you need to know
  
  Yes, that part was a bit confusing to me at first, since they already described zero tolerance against anything not adhering to official guidelines Dost Test, which is new to me.
  But it makes perfect sense now, they only follow those rules strictly because they must. They would probably love if they could break them if they thought they could get away with it.
  When I was shown a link to what they call "MAP", it very quickly became crystal clear what it was about.

OH 4CHAN

What the fuck is a para or transkid?

Locking post as comments have gotten extremely off topic and hostile.

Being realistic here... They don't seem to have anything actually illegal though, it's not like the instance is breaking the law or anything, seems like a far fetched overreaction.
- The public doesn't think that way. Once media covers fediverse as some underground CSAM tradi g center, it's dead.

- The largest community is a pedophile community. What more do you need?

I mean, pedos do have a place they belong. A woodchipper. Feet first.
- Slowly.

To be completely honest, I'd rather use reddit and have to deal with the shitty client than having to constantly worry about pedos like here on lemmy
- I've yet to see anything but posts about this issue, so I'm confused by comments like this. I'm a daily user some days heavily and have been for a couple months.
- There are pedos all over Reddit. Even on the admin team. So...

- This has nothing to do with LGBTQ+ people and your instance already defederated from them.
  If anything, allowing join lemmy to promote that instance makes the LGBTQ+ community look bad.
- Doesn't look like the users read that rule

Every single I've seen something horrible from a fedi site, it's been on lemmy. I would block all of lemmy, but then my feed would be dry. I've seen much worse things here in a few months than I did for the on and off years on reddit. I honestly might just quit kbin and fediverse sites all together, I've already stopped recommending it to people. There is a servere lack of moderation and a large attraction to certain types of people to populate here. I see this going similar to voat, just harshly left rather than harshly right.
- Freedom from corporate interests means greater personal responsibility. We can't have one without the other. All of us bear a responsibility to raise awareness about this stuff and inform our instance admins. It's the cost of not using corporate platforms.
  
  Be the change you wanna see!
- The issue is that people who do want to moderate dont have the tools for it, and/or burn out doing it like it's happening to beehaw. The fediverse software just isn't ready for stuff like this unfortunately, and it's a shame. Their focus really should have been moderation tools and safety in the past few months...

Yeah I'm deleting this app now. I love a nice alternative to reddit, but considering how much unblurred porn bleeds through to my timeline with no provocation, I really don't want to run the risk of something truely heinous like whatever is associated with this making it to my Frontpage.
- You can simply block NSFW, you can do it in your settings
  
  ~~Might be wise to reverse the default. Those who want can enable it.~~
  All fine, answers clarified.
- Bye, hope you can figure out the one simple checkbox that blocks all that stuff on whatever other aggregator you end up on.
- You have an account on an instance with a very active admin team. We were even the first one to report this specific instance to the rest of the admins. We didn't do it in public to not give them any kind of exposure.
  As others in this thread have suggested, you can disable NSFW communities completely by disabling the NSFW flag in your user settings.
- If it helps, I use kbin.social (and its PWA for mobile browsing) and haven't seen any porn at all in my feed. I assume it's filtered out by default, but I haven't checked. I don't get any of the extreme political stuff in my feed either.
  
  Yep, there was some in the early days but nowadays it seems to be gone to the point I think it's bugged and hiding all NSFW content regardless of your profile setting.
  
  Yep. Kbin is the way.
- Go to "Communities"
  Select "All"
  Subscribe to any & all communities that interest you
  Click on your username and select "Settings"
  Scroll down to "Type" and select "Subscribed"
  Congratulations, your front page now only consists of content you explicitly asked for.
- Kbin is much better. I don't see any porn.
  
  Lemmy user here, I don't see it either... The guy has bad settings
  
  You don't see porn on the front page of lemmy either, if you used the "subscribed" view, instead of treating "ALL" as if it doesn't contain everything.
- It's honestly depressing at how Lemmy has turned over the last few months since I joined. I would now never mention I use the site or recommend it to others. There's just too many fucking landmines for new users to step over to have a good experience here.
  I'm sticking with it for the time being, but I don't see myself ever using it again if it gets worse.