I hope this isn’t too spicy a topic for the, what, 7th post on this community? But I see that we already have /c/Zoophilia on the instance and it already has an impressive 80 subscribers. Even as a zoo myself, though, I made the decision to block it as I’m firm in my belief that animals can’t consent. What are everyone’s thoughts on the instance growing other communities about other paraphilias? I know we have a lot of lolicons/shotacons/etc. here, so a community for pedophilia/minor attraction would be really cool and I think fit right in. I’ve always wanted a community for that in a reddit-esque style. (They exist as forums, chat-rooms, and mastodon instances, though!) But if it follows in the footsteps of the zoophilia community and everyone there seems to believe kids can consent, I’d have to block it too. And then I’ll be back at zero when it comes to having a reddit-like community of MAPs! 🥲
What do you think about the prospect of more paraphilia communities? Awesome or scary? Good for the instance or bad for it? I’m also interested in hearing everyone’s opinion on creating alternate paraphilia communities exclusively for anti-contact discussions. (If one like that for zoophilia existed I would happily join!)
I would have to ban any community focused on that type of content as it’s far too likely that they’d break my instances rules
rule 4: (do not advocate that you should be allowed to rape children)
It always seems so unfair when we’re banned under pretenses like that that regardless of contact stance… like despite the fact that we’re just normal people with an attraction we can’t control we’re treated as more likely to be a threat and less able to control ourselves yk?
If a place is gonna ban us all I’d rather they be upfront about just not wanting us around instead of hiding behind the idea that it’d just be too hard to moderate! Like how twitter and reddit do it.
It is absolutely unfair, but it costs way more moderation energy than many feel the subject is worth given the number of bad actors such groups tend to collect.
I mean that unfairness is baked into the nature of a platform where someone else ultimately bears responsibility for failures in moderation. These sites aren’t run by perfect robots that work 24/7, they’re run by people. I the case of lemmy, almost entirely people doing this as a personal project. And there’s a limit to how much work they want to put into it, especially when it comes to being an internet jannie.