On: Notes on running a single-person Mastodon server

[GhostWhisperer → omoikane]

just went to check on what pawoo[.]net is and didn't even need to scroll to see child sexual abuse media

searching ddg for pawoo shows this is not news for anyone so i find it strange that you would even bother question why any other server would accept federate with it

and how the fuck isn't this comment deleted yet? dang?

[Doches → GhostWhisperer]

> how the fuck isn't this comment deleted yet? dang?

There's no CSAM in the /comment/, just a lament that masotodon.social and pawoo don't federate with each other. Want to take action against a service you find (extremely) distasteful? Great, take action -- dig through their DNS, figure out where their servers are hosted, talk to the FBI. But invoking /dang/ to do something about it (to...protect the emotionally fragile HN community from being exposed to the existing of something vile?) just isn't that action.

I for damn sure won't defend the folks running pawoo, but we ought to defend to the death omoikane's right to talk about it. Free speech runs both ways, and sometimes that sucks.

[GhostWhisperer → Doches]

s/deleted/redacted/

look, it's my fault for clicking on a blurred image, on a site i didn't know

i just did not expect that stuff on the first hop out of hn

[throwaway_4749 → GhostWhisperer]

I can understand why you would disagree, but curious why you think that comment needs to be deleted? Do you really think we not only need to criminalize digital paintings you don’t like, but even mentioning them?

[GhostWhisperer → throwaway_4749]

i want to be very clear that what i clicked on was not a painting/cartoon/manga-drawing

when i wrote child sexual abuse media, i was not referring to a depiction of but rather a picture of an actual child being abused

this is not up for debate

edit: that you need to get a throwaway to argue you point tells me you know this shit is indefensible

[throwaway_4749 → GhostWhisperer]

Ah, haven’t used it in a while and that wasn’t a problem back then, didn’t realize you were being literal and not just overreacting to drawings

[throwaway_4749 → GhostWhisperer]

>edit: that you need to get a throwaway to argue you point tells me you know this shit is indefensible

Wrong, I just don’t wanna argue the morality of lolicon images using my real name.

[omoikane → GhostWhisperer]

If the way you use social networks is to view the live feed of all posts by all users and pick out the ones most offensive to you, I am afraid you are going to have a bad time.

A better way is to ignore the live feed (or suggested/recommended/featured/etc) and only follow the users you are interested in. I am not on pawoo.net, but it has a lot of artists that I would like to follow and couldn't follow them from mastodon.social.

[GhostWhisperer → omoikane]

the live feed is the first thing i saw; a ddg search indicates more people are aware of it

i'm starting to question if you are arguing in good faith

[mid-kid → omoikane]

And that's probably what bothers me most about the fediverse in general. I want to be able to see everything, be it appropriate or not, misinformation or harassment, but the only servers that allow that are those that are suspended everywhere themselves. Unfortunately, those are also the kinds of servers crawling with people that I wouldn't want to be associated with.