[Announcement] Lemmy.World and lemmy.dbzer0.com has defederated from ani.social - Ani.Social
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As of November 7, 2023 09:23 both Lemmy.World and lemmy.dbzer0.com [http://lemmy.dbzer0.com] have federated with us again. Thank you for quickly reviewing the situation and reversing your decision. We hope that Lemmy.ml [http://Lemmy.ml] will follow soon. ::: spoiler Original post: To anyone who is not familiar with the situation, please read our previous post [https://ani.social/post/863176] for context. Please do not say anything hateful toward the concerned instances’ admins. — ## What happened? A few hours ago, Lemmy.World and lemmy.dbzer0.com has defederated from ani.social [https://defed.xyz/check/ani.social], following the events of Lemmy.ml defederating from ani.social on November 3 [https://ani.social/post/863176]. Lemmy.World has given a censure on Fediseer [https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/ani.social] with the reason being “loli”. lemmy.dbzer0.com [http://lemmy.dbzer0.com] has not given a reason for defederation as of the moment. We disagree with anyone claiming that ani.social intentionally and knowingly hosts CSAM. We would like to remind everyone that ani.social has a content policy regarding CSAM content [https://ani.social/legal] since day one. Specifically, our content policy states the following: > 7. Do not submit content depicting a child (both real and virtual) engaged or involved in explicit sexual activities. A child is defined as a person who is under 18 years old; or a person, regardless of age, who is presented, depicted or portrayed as under 18 years old. To provide some context, the Lemmy developers excluded ani.social from the recently launched join-lemmy.org redesign without any clear reason provided [https://github.com/LemmyNet/joinlemmy-site/commit/d17c4d7d2fbeafb6e39000332d0ac21499de5b47]. My pull request to remove ani.social from the exclude-list was denied for the reason being that ani.social is “full of CSAM” [https://github.com/LemmyNet/joinlemmy-site/pull/266]. Shortly after, ani.social was defederated from Lemmy.ml [http://Lemmy.ml]. The full story may be found on the previous thread [https://ani.social/post/863176]. Numerous threads have since spawned, many of which have comments state that there is no evidence of the claim that ani.social is “full of CSAM” and that the decision was unfair. These threads include: - https://ani.social/post/863176 [https://ani.social/post/863176] - https://lemmy.ml/post/7406051 [https://lemmy.ml/post/7406051] - https://lemmy.world/post/7714824 [https://lemmy.world/post/7714824] - https://sh.itjust.works/post/8411770 [https://sh.itjust.works/post/8411770] - https://lemmy.ml/post/7437529 [https://lemmy.ml/post/7437529] We respectfully ask the admins of Lemmy.World, lemmy.dbzer0.com [http://lemmy.dbzer0.com], and Lemmy.ml [http://Lemmy.ml] to review the situation and our policies, and consider reversing your decision if there is no evidence that ani.social intentionally and knowingly hosts CSAM. ## What now? If you are a user of ani.social and wish to see content from Lemmy.World and lemmy.dbzer0.com [http://lemmy.dbzer0.com], we kindly ask you to move to a different instance that is federated with all three instances. If you are a user of Lemmy.World or lemmy.dbzer0.com [http://lemmy.dbzer0.com] and wish to see content from ani.social, we kindly ask you to send a request to your respective admins to reverse their decisions after reviewing the situation. To all other Fediverse instance admins, we kindly ask you to carefully review our instance and its policies before defederating from us. To all ani.social users, please do not forget to report content that violates our content policy [https://ani.social/legal]. ## My personal thoughts As the admin of ani.social, I sincerely apologize to all our users regarding the defederation from three major Lemmy instances. I believe that this is my fault for not communicating our policies clearly enough. I will continue working toward a solution regarding this matter so please be patient. Thank you for reading this, and I appreciate everyone’s support. :::

The comments section is ultimate drama. 😹😹

  • Antik 👾@lemmy.world
    214·
    11 months ago

    Just fyi. You have cookiejarobserver@burggit.moe in this thread using his alt @CJOtheReal@lemmy.sdf.org here. He is moderator on known pedo and Loli instance burgitt.moe and he has been very angry at us at Lemmy World for calling him out.

    He now pretends that it is not his account even though CJO obviously stands for CookieJarObserver, he also speaks German and he is defending the person that is ‘totally not him’.

    Pretty sure he is using at least one other account here to play stupid - Amillionnames. This user popped up around the same time CJO had his accounts banned and is always in the same threads. And now they are having conversations pretending they are not the same person.

    Yes I am all over this thread with my alt (because I could not talk to him from my LW account since he is banned) but it all just clicked. He was in every thread that mentions LW talking shit with his alts which made me wonder why he would not give his main account so this could be reviewed.

    Now we know.

    https://burggit.moe/u/cookiejarobserver

    Bye

  • mateomaui@reddthat.comEnglish
    171·
    11 months ago

    Wait… doesn’t it say they refederated?

    It looks like an update to a post titled when defederation happened before?

    • antik@lemmy.world@lemm.ee
      43·
      11 months ago

      Just have a look at this user’s history if you want to know why he got banned. Basically calling us antisemites and what not. His entire history is full of LW shit-talking on his new account. He even admitted “I have a personal problem with these assholes” without actually revealing his main account.

      https://lemmy.world/u/CJOtheReal@lemmy.sdf.org

      Edit: his main account is cookiejarobserver@burgitt.moe and he is a mod on a pedo instance

      • CJOtheReal@lemmy.sdf.org
        26·
        11 months ago

        Yeah i don’t care about you banning me, im literally saying you and the other mods are insane, and you constantly following me just proves my point.

        Fuck off.

        • antik@lemmy.world@lemm.ee
          34·
          11 months ago

          Following? You think I don’t get notified when you are calling us names or insulting us?

          What’s your main account let’s see what happened

            • antik@lemmy.world@lemm.ee
              33·
              11 months ago

              At least I’m not a moderator on a pedo instance.

              People who think I am joking, look up cookiejarobserver@burggit.moe thanks

              • CJOtheReal@lemmy.sdf.org
                33·
                11 months ago

                Ok but where did you pull the bs from that Im that guy?

                Also lmao the guy just posts normal hentai and nothing “pedo” related, and seeing the pinned comment on that instance they absolutely don’t allow anything involving real children or even children looking…

                You guy are just insane and a idiot.

  • russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.netEnglish
    5·
    11 months ago

    This is one of the biggest issues with having a large part of the user-base end up on the same instance(s).

    I do fear that the Fediverse, since this problem happens on all of the federated services I’ve seen, is one day going to end up just like Reddit/Twitter/etc. Maybe not in the exact same fashion (hopefully), but similar in many ways.

    Which is not to say that I don’t appreciate the people behind these communities for all that they contribute, don’t get me wrong. But we’re eclipsing a precipice that is going to be difficult to come back from.

    It’s a tough problem, and honestly I don’t know what the solution is. It’s not as simple as “don’t have big instances”, but the current situation isn’t really ideal either.

  • Butts@ani.social
    83·
    10 months ago

    I posted this comment on ani.social and got banned from Lemmy.world:

    Who even cares, fuck those guys.

    Lemmy.world revealed how far they have their heads jammed waaaaaay up their own assholes when they released their new TOS and were patting themselves on the back about it. Then, in true Le Reddit fashion, anyone in the comments section who dared to question that decision was getting mass down voted by brainless sycophants. Lemmy.world got lucky by being the most visible and attracting the most users this past summer, but it doesn’t make them inherently special, which they clearly now believe they are.

    The Fediverse is a new opportunity for internet discussion to feel free and open again rather than confined by kowtowing to corporate interests. These instances defederating from ani.social is forewarning to any users with their heads up that they are just places to avoid anyway.

    Now, regardless of whether you agree with my stance or not, or if for some reason you are offended by the fuck word, is criticism of policy seriously an offense so egregious that it warrants a ban?

    Of course it isn’t.

    And before somebody tries to cleverly point out “hurr durr you sound butthurt because you got banned from LW” that’s not at all the point I am making here. I’m pointing out the sheer insecure pettiness of the administration at LW that they would get so bent out of shape from some criticism from a throwaway account that they would ban it on the spot.

    Ask yourselves if you really want to make LW your home base, because I do not.

    Edit: also lol at Antik, a LW admin, coming to this comments section on an alt account and arguing with people. Dozens of testy, sparring comments bordering on harassment. This is the exact immature behavior that I am calling out. He had to literally do nothing to get a win here, yet he deliberately chose to show his ass to everyone instead.

    Edit 2: LW banned every user in this thread who posted a criticism of their insecurity, pettiness, irrationality and cognitive dissonance of thinking that “pictures of anime” are somehow all CSAM. They have brigaded this post - roughly 50% of the 100 comments here are from the admin or his alt literally harassing people simply because they stated they do not like LW. These are not the actions of sound-minded individuals, these are the actions of actually insane people.

    • finthechat@kbin.social
      5·
      11 months ago

      Curious that this exact comment thread looks so different on Lemmy.ca (original instance) versus how it appears on Lemmy World.

      At the time of posting this, the original thread has 13 comments as opposed to the sanitized version on Lemmy World, which has 6 comments. Naturally, all of the comments critical of LW do not appear on their version.

      • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
        41·
        11 months ago

        You sure it’s not just because those comments were submitted by ani.social users during the period which the instances were defederated from each other?

        • finthechat@kbin.social
          6·
          11 months ago

          It’s from manual bans, not defederation. Both Butts@ani.social (the parent comment in this chain) and CJOtheReal@lemmy.sdf.org (commenter providing a critical summary of why people are upset) are banned at LW.

          At the time of writing this comment, by looking at the LW modlog you can see Butts was banned 3 hours ago because “fuck those guys” and 17 hours ago CJOTheReal was banned because “LW admins are assholes.”

          I am guessing those ban reasons are quotes from the banned users themselves, not the actual reason why an admin personally banned them, though that hardly makes it justifiable - in fact it does the opposite by proving that LW admins actually are power tripping and banning for petty reasons.

          • CJOtheReal@lemmy.sdf.org
            21·
            11 months ago

            I nither of us gives a shit tbh, we just think they are power tripping like reddit mods. And Don’t engage in their instance shithole. Btw at least one of the admins keeps following several users around like a creep constantly attacking the users and saying “look what they say” like anyone gives a shit…

            Let’s call them spezes from now on…

      • antik@lemmy.world@lemm.ee
        36·
        11 months ago

        Because people that are banned on LW love to chime in on threads about LW with their totally sane and objective takes.

        But that’s why there are more comments on this thread than if you would look at this thread from LW.

        • CJOtheReal@lemmy.sdf.org
          33·
          11 months ago

          I think you guys are just banning everyone disagreeing with you personally and that’s why people call you out for being a clownshow…

          But who knows…

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netEnglish
    62·
    11 months ago

    I quickly moved my main account to a new instance back when it was shown how more users in a single instance slowed everything down. If it ever came down to it, I would just run my own instance to be able to control what I can and cannot see instead of letting someone else choose for me.

  • neo (he/him)@lemmy.comfysnug.spaceEnglish
    3·
    10 months ago

    They defederated from us over the same pretense, but there is no loli or csam to be found here and there never was.

    Just some anime girls which was enough for a full defed.

  • Socsa@sh.itjust.works
    0·
    11 months ago

    And people keep saying that it doesn’t matter that the admins of the largest subs are insane people. It’s very clear that they intend to use their influence to shape the fediverse and create walled gardens around anything from political ideology to inane biases.

    It’s critically important to call them out on this shit. It doesn’t do much, but it’s better than doing nothing.