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That one is probably a liability issue. Especially a problem with real-life porn, but even with drawn material, you'll often get characters which don't look like adults. So then the mods would have to review each post, which is too much work, and they'd also likely see shit they'd rather not.
Considering this platform is mostly volunteers, if not fully, it's just not worth it.
As an admin, spot on. People don't realize that as an admin I and liable for what goes on on my instance. Both financially and criminally. They can kick down my door for things posted, so of course I ban any NSFW, and I have still seen things I wish I could unsee that people have posted.
I always welcome others to spin up their own instance though. They are more than welcome to host it themselves, under their name.
It's all part of the authoritarian backsliding the world is suffering right now. Big centralized services can shield themselves with laws like Section 230, while wielding the threat of prosecution like a cudgel against small operators that aren't "legitimate" in the way that big companies get treated and can't afford the effort it takes to guarantee compliance.
So instead, most would-be operators cave to the chilling effects and users are driven back into the thrall of the big tech propaganda and control platforms.
We don't need every instance to be a porn site tbh. Lemmy nsfw exists doesn't it? You are welcome to make another one but its also fairly reasonable to understand some don't really want to bother moderating a porn site.
To be clear, OP didn't say "porn" on Lemmy, they said "adult art". There are contexts in which nudity is not pornographic, but I assume it's easier to just ban it all and not take any risks, than to judge the artistic merit of each upload before deciding whether it's too over the top.
The inverse problem exists for creators on yt who make animations that are not kid friendly. Google's bots love to tag them as for children, and thus demonitize them.
I wonder if it isnβt a reaction to the number of people blocking all NSFW content? Like if most of your users don't want to see porn in literally every other post and just block all NSFW as a quick workaround, then the headaches inherent in moderating adult content become much less worthwhile.
And without either blocking specific instances or blocking all NSFW, sometimes over half of βallβ is porn.
Iβm not anti porn but I find it hard to wrap my head around a user who is equally enjoying half their feed being hardcore videos, 1/4 memes and 1/4 news, all equally and simultaneously. Like βIβm on the bus reading a news article about the economy then Iβll check out 30 seconds of FP blowjobs and then oh, someone posted about a labor strikeβ? Who is that?
The way lemmy works it makes more sense to just swap to a seperate instance and user and keep your nsfw seperated. Better than depending on apps/frontends having an easy way to filter it.
I think its hilarious. Just annoying because of societal prudishness meaning its considered inappropriate in public places and work.
So what's the worst that could happen if some fake artistic character doesn't have its drawn tit censored?
If that "fake artistic character" is a minor, that's CSAM in some jurisdictions, and that leaves the instance admin legally on the hook for a whole range of offenses which are punishable by incarceration, huge fines, and/or life on a sex offenders register, and in some places, chemical castration.
So yeah, not near as fucking innocent as you make it out to be.
I didn't make it out to be anything, I asked a question.
And what idiot country would not just give a warning and say remove the drawing if someone was offended?
I doubt they would use all these draconian punishments as if they didn't see any difference with someone raping a baby and putting it online.