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Pawoo, a Japanese Mastadon instance on the Fediverse notoriously bad about moderating CSAM, has been taken down. (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Speaking from experience, they could fix their spam and abuse woes very easily by just closing new signups or restricting it in some way. Simplest would be invite-only (built-in feature of Mastodon), or restrict the signups page based on IP range whitelist/blacklist.

EDIT: Their domain has been reinstated, and they disabled open signups. New registrations now require moderator approval https://pawoo.net/@pawoo_support/111249170584706318

:pawoo: Announcement! Thank you for always using Pawoo. Due to server congestion, new registrations will now require approval by a moderator. Thank you very much for your cooperation.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

you mean they should turn off the user-count-go-uppinator? but how would the fediverse grow like that?? /s

(sorry i just have opinions on large instances)

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

The nature of a site like reddit (and lemmy and all other alternatives) means a large userbase is necessary. Not at the expense of CSAM, but also everyone trying to gatekeep lemmy doesn't realise that we'll die a slow death unless the fediverse grows by at least 10-20x.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Doesn't have to be all on one instance though. Instances shouldn't grow beyond what they can admin/moderate

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I swear, Lemmy users act like they are completely in favor of an instance of 40 users and a submission every other week. Seeing scale as inherently bad.

Lemmy will fucking roll over and die within the year.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I’m pretty sure they were complicit in this and were not really trying to fight it.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago

Actual CSAM on pawoo wasn't even a problem. It was just spam from feds or scammers.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Absolutely brain-dead speculation based on literally nothing. Complicit in what??? The current owner is a very public figure, so they gain nothing and have everything to lose. It's just pure incompetence and mismanagement.