• petunia@lemmy.world
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    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.

    • kopper [they/them]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      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)

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        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.

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

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        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.

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

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        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.

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    Why are there people downvoting people commenting about not wanting CSAM?

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      CSAM is Child Sexual Exploitation Material

      People prefer using this term over CP because the word “porn” is considered too soft. Porn is generally a consensual, adult medium made with adults for adults. CP is not that, it’s first and foremost harm of a child.

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        Another reason is that “CP” got jokingly coopted by abusers in the form of various dogwhistles (e.g.: “cheese pizza”). It made more sense to adopt a new acronym rather than try to uphold any sense of decorum while sharing ownership of the term w/ edgelords & predators.

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        That’s strange to me, because Child Porn sounds revolting to me but CSAM sounds like something I can treat with aspirin.

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      Nah. They’re lax about loli. Which, as distasteful as it is, does not involve any harm to actual children. They do go after actual CSAM.

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        Not really, they’re lax about CSAM and didn’t even have laws until 2016-2017. Even then the laws are lax

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        They go after it mainly to appease external forces like other countries objecting to it, but people who are convicted often get very light sentences.