Check the modlog for proof, a discussion post about moving this instance to an instance that shan’t be named now got removed for “linking to instance featuring pedo content”.
Ironically that exact possibility was reason for the discussion in the first place so seeing it happen this quickly is a bit funny.
Not sure how best to go about linking to said instance since it seems to get your content removed. DM’s would be the only solution I guess but not sure if those are checked as well.
Really showing your ass here by suggesting that you want to move to an instance with pedo content.
edit: undeleted for posterity
I see two options as to why you made that comment:
1: you just blindly believe what that admin said and have no opinion of your own, if that is the case I highly doubt a discussion is possible
2: you actually believe anime is csam in which case a discussion won’t be possible either because we don’t share the same definition of what csam is
As a closing note I find it hilarious that someone from hexbear of all places tries to ridicule people for trying to move to a safe space for their community
Edit: case in point against the csam claim is the fact that the instance in question got re-added to join-lemmy.org because the material that got it removed was not remotely seen as csam by the other maintaners
Well at first I assumed there was probably validity to what Dessalines said, because I consider them credible and I know enough about anime to know that there is a lot of csam that hides behind bullshit justifications. Even in this thread there’s discussion of a show that blatantly tittilates the audience with underage characters that would absolutely qualify as csam in any other community except in the anime community, for some reason.
And then I went onto the anime lemmy everyone is surreptitiously talking about, and the literal first post I saw was a body pillow design featuring an underage character that is right on the line of being csam. It was the only example I saw in my brief look, and it didn’t quite qualify, which is why I came back and deleted my comment.
I don’t care about what the maintainers’ view of the matter is, I make (and sometimes delete) my comments based on my own view of it.
I may have an extremely warped opinion on this due to several reasons (imo mostly due to irl encounters with adult people that would put you on a watch list due to how young they look) but I think in the end it usually boils down to anime/manga just being terrible media for portraying how old a character actually is. The oldest anime character you can draw will still look significantly younger than a person you meet irl simply because the art style hides a lot of the age marks.
Edit: which is not to say that there isn’t a lot of CSAM hiding, it’s just imo the stuff that gets popular on SFW platforms is rarely that stuff
To add a bit more opinion: If you have an account on lemmy.ml itself and read/comment in either the Anime or Manga community I urgently recommend you migrate to a different instance. As far as I can tell the instance we shan’t name here anymore for fear of admin abuse is still visible on join-lemmy.org after widespread complaints that removing an instance from there based on admin opinion alone is not exactly nice.
Best way to tell you how to find it is go to join-lemmy.org and look for an obviously anime themed instance in the “Art” category. Not sure if just saying that is grounds for removal though, depends on how trigger happy the admins here are.
All they’ve removed is a post that linked to an instance that they had de-federated from. They haven’t really taken off any anime related content from the time I’ve been here so claiming it’s content removal hammer is overblown. I also don’t agree with the migration to the other instance. This is the largest anime community by far on lemmy, it’s where most new users will migrate to and other than not having access to Shinobu, there has been little to no signs of being censored or anything.
In my opinion, the migration is sensible because:
- You need to know a topic decently enough to be able to moderate a community about it. And yet it’s unreasonable to expect the admins of lemmy.ml - a community about free/open source and privacy - to know about anime.
- There’s no inherent reason why this comm is the largest anime comm in Lemmy. It’s simply that this comm is three years old, from a time when “Lemmy” was mostly just lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml, there was no other place in Lemmy to discuss anime.
- Lemmy as a whole benefits from redirecting traffic from larger instances to smaller ones. Specially instances unrelated to politics and tech. In fact, lemmy.ml’s admins asked users to use other instances not too long ago.
You need to know a topic decently enough to be able to moderate a community about it. And yet it’s unreasonable to expect the admins of lemmy.ml - a community about free/open source and privacy - to know about anime.
This is what mods are for. The sleight-of-hand is silly and obvious.
Not just the mods. Admins can (and should) also moderate content in their instances, specially when it comes to the global rules. And it’s clear that lemmy.ml admins want to do so, otherwise this thread wouldn’t exist on first place.
Actually according to the modlog, some “mod” removed for “Mahou Shoujo ni Akogarete • Gushing over Magical Girls - Episode 1 discussion” citing Rule 3 “No Porn”
I mean the show is risque, but we’re starting to see nipples on Hollywood red carpets these days…
“mod” being in quotes because of the uncertainty elsewhere in this post…
I mean the show is risque, but
If there’s an “uncensored” version* because of the nudity, it probably qualifies as soft porn, all the more when a portion of the cast are minors (as the Wikipedia summary suggests they are). This doesn’t strike me as a hill worth dying on.
*It’s been trending on 9anime
It was removed by an admin, Arthur Besse. And in that specific case I can see both sides being reasonable - the lemmy.ml admins want it to be strictly SFW (that’s fine) and some anime fans want to discuss ecchi (I think that the show is ecchi? That’s also fine, really).
IMO it’s just another reason why this comm should migrate - this is bound to happen again here, and again, and again, increasing the burden for the admins and displeasing the userbase. (It could be worse. Imagine now a hypothetical second season for Ishuzoku Reviewers.)
…Aaaand the entries from the modlog concerning deleting my thread and post have been deleted.
Wonderful transparency there…
Fortunately, the bookwormstory.social entries are still there, so I could recover my scribblings.
It really isn’t the largest though, maybe by users but certainly not by activity. For example the post about “The Boy and Heron” winning a golden globe got 9 comments on the unspeakable instance and only 2 here. From my own experience posting to both that seems to be the norm.
Regarding content removal from what I saw in the modlog the most concerning action other than preventing people from talking about alternatives was removing the Alya-san Key Visuals. So that gives you a good baseline of what will get hammered if noticed: pretty much everything.
The defederation being grounds for removal of all mention is a bit silly but not a discussion I’m willing to go into here as it would be pretty off-topic. I repsect your opinion on the matter but imo it’s a very slippery slope to ban talking about something outright.
To be pretty blunt here closing down here is more a formality than anything really, even just stat wise there are slightly more active users on the other instance and the users there are apparently a lot more engaged in discussion than people here.
For context, I encourage people to check this discussion in the “join Lemmy” site github. Have in mind that both of the Lemmy developers in that discussion are also admins of the lemmy.ml instance, and they clearly disagree if the instance in question should be considered as “hosting CSAM” or not.
Yup, that was a bit of a shit show all around, made the rounds in the privacy communities as well and they were not pleased with the blatant censorship over there either. I guess stuff like this is why a lot of those people hang around dbzer0 now. To each interest an instance with fitting policies I guess.
The really sad part though is how it locks in users on lemmy.ml, you can’t even really link to a safe haven because doing so is already grounds to get the post/comment removed
Pretty happy with my instance. :)
Tbf though I don’t check the mod log.
Do you get a message if something happened with your post?
Sorry for the double reply. Here’s a practical idea: what if the mods of this comm contacted lemmy.ml’s admins? Ideally doing two things:
- Clarifying that the instance in question does not have child sexual abuse material, and requesting users to be allowed to link it.
- Expressing desire to migrate !anime@lemmy.ml to the instance in question, and highlighting that this is convenient for both sides of the matter.
Among the admins I think that Nutomic would be the best to contact, given the github thread.
I highly doubt 1 will work given the reaction they had initially to claims it contains csam. 2 could potentially work though, maybe they’d have to write in a disclaimer of sorts to get the admins on board. If the link is the problem and not the wording just writing the instance name without a link would also work I guess.
@N3DSdude, @Nami, @ram, @rammy What are the mods’ thoughts on this idea?
I think that it’s worth trying #1 because I genuinely think that Arthur Besse is simply being overprotective, and using a “better safe than sorry” approach, and the reason why he might believe that [the anime instance] has CSAM is Dessalines’ github claim. In the meantime, Dessalines and Nutomic already discussed this, and even decided to re-allow the instance in the Join Lemmy page.
As such, I don’t see stupidity or maliciousness from their part; just a broken telephone game. This means that they might listen to reason.
