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  • hey, I’m the admin of lemdit.com, thought I’d offer you my 2 cents.

    Generally speaking anyone is welcome on Lemdit. We’re not a political instance, nor are we a strictly ‘free speech’ one. What this means is any ideas are welcome irrespective of political lean, but slurs, attacks or calls for violence are not. To give you a concrete example, disagreeing with government covid policy is fine, calling people fags is not.

    Lemdit is indeed a tiny instance. This isn’t really an issue as far as content and engagement is concerned thanks to federation, but it does mean we’re a very small fish that can be easily killed if we get defederated. We’re not big enough to survive under our own content steam, so if you do join, please try to keep this in mind.

    The only instances we’ve defederated are ones that host loli porn. In general, anything that can get us into legal trouble is gone on the spot (I don’t mean the lemmy.world interpretation of legal). Otherwise I don’t live in the US and I make it a point not to get involved in politics one way or the other, so you will not see me defederate or block anything based on politics.

    Lemdit is also self-hosted and costs me very little to run, so this isn’t a donations grift, we’re not looking to grow at all costs, etc.

    You can find more info here: https://lemdit.com/post/2915 https://lemdit.com/post/13

    If this sounds like you, then feel free to sign up.




  • It’s very disappointing. They seem to be testing the waters, for example this guy won’t outright promote pedophilia, instead he’ll make arguments such as:

    • teenagers over 14 are fully developed young adults
    • it’s bigotry to treat them like children
    • it harms and infantilizes teenagers over 14 to treat them like children
    • the brain is fully developed by 14, the rest is just a myth
    • power imbalances between adults and teens are a myth
    • puritans are to blame for the hysteria against age difference in sexual partners
    • hysteria around pedophiles today is the same as the witch hunts of the past
    • child beauty padgents are just kids playing dress-up and harm nobody
    • punishment for adults who have sex with teenagers over 14 is disproportionate for a crime that hurts nobody

    …etc. Nothing he says is technically illegal so he’s banking on everyone going along with it on this technicality. At the end of the day, this is a 50+ year old dude with a squeaky voice that is trying to make a case for how he should be able to have sex with 14 year olds. He is (somewhat) indirectly promoting pedophilia and can fuck right off.




  • Hey, thanks for your feedback. I like your idea of labeling Cloudflared services, reporting is indeed a bit tricky for those especially if they use “Always online” to serve cached copies while the instance is down. I have some ideas on how to combat that, but labeling them also makes sense.

    I can add tags against services - I have done this for ani.social as a proof of concept, I think it works but I welcome feedback. Sorting through the entire list is a bit daunting and will take me a while, but I’ll get there.

    Manually adjusting availability is a can of worms that I don’t want to open, I’d rather we try to find other ways to level the playing field.