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De-federate from instances with loli (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by InfiniteVariables@sh.itjust.works to c/main@sh.itjust.works

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Can we get a consensus on whether our community should de-federate with servers that host loli? I personally think we should block them, and if that ends up not being the consensus here then I'll probably sign up on another server. I hope we can all agree to set that boundary though because I like it here and it seems otherwise pretty cool.

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[–] _uc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

I think people can have a heathy relationship with porn, and yeah there are a lot of puritanical views that sound superficially convincing, especially in direct comparison to addictive substances.

It's hard for a lot of people to approach this subject from a place of empathy and I think shunning a group could risk the same harms as condoning the behaviour; you end up with a group that convinces itself of an internally invisible false narrative, and there's nobody there to oppose it.

The presence of these images though indicates a group of people who think they're is ok, who are likely accessing more extreme images, and ultimately creates a sense of normalcy around consumption. I don't think ordinary discussion should be juxtaposed with that and it shouldn't be freely available on a general purpose site.