cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/6400327

In case anyone is wondering, it’s rqd2.

The definition of paraphilia is “a condition characterized by abnormal sexual desires, typically involving extreme or dangerous activities.”, which can inclde pedophilia.

It has recieved 4 censures from fediseer due to the content contained on that instance

Not a good look for Lemmy to be promoting any instance like that.

You can see for yourself here

Update: A pull request was sent to remove the sus instance. It should no longer show up soon

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    The instances page at join-lemmy is completely automated

    This definitely needs to get pushed to the two main devs for lemmy as they control that website

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    That instance list is built completely automatically by a crawler, no one approves instances before they are listed. In this case it was removed as soon as we became aware of it. Next time please make a pull request like that one, its much more effective than complaining.

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    Holy fuck.

    I was a teacher for a private company at 17. I taught kids aged 6-14. A couple of my students I had occasional intrusive sexual thoughts about.

    She was 8, which was way below my AoA of 12+, and she certainly hadn’t started puberty. But she was attractive. She made me nervous, I thought about her everyday, I envisioned what we’d do together–she was just like any crush to me, only instead of an adult, she was a kid. But does that really make a difference? She was a person. What should age have to do with love? Eventually shit happened.

    They even call it the pediverse.

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      Hello! I’m AR15U! I’m the owner of rqd2.net! I’m transgender and transrace, and questioning transage and transabled. I’m a MAP as well

      What in the unmitigated fuck is this? How can someone be so ridiculous… transrace? Transage?! Transabled?!! Is this some sort of weird roleplay to make trans people look silly?

      Appropriate gif

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        It wouldn’t surprise me at all to find out that they are trying to make trans people look bad.

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          Yeah, I think Poe’s Law may be in full effect here. The law basically states that without some sort of signifier that it is parody, it’s impossible to create a parody of an extremist that is so extreme that it’ll never be mistaken as genuine. It was originally applied to fundamentalist Christians, but has since been expanded to pretty much any trolling or extremist viewpoints.

          I genuinely hope that it’s a troll trying to make trans people look bad. Because that’s honestly the best-case scenario. The idea of this person actually existing is more gross than the alternative. Because if they actually exist, then it means they’re not just a troll trying to make trans people look bad. It means they’re a goddamned predator who needs to be sequestered away from the rest of society, and should never be allowed near children.

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            The idea of this person actually existing is more gross than the alternative. Because if they actually exist, then it means they’re not just a troll trying to make trans people look bad.

            People like this are guaranteed to exist. With the wide spectrum of sexualities out there plus the sheer numbers of human population, there was more than likely going to be a few that are trans and pedo. Just like how there are Catholic pedos, Buddhist pedos, certainly hetero pedos and yes, some gay pedos.

            Any attempts to hold up a trans/pedo or a gay/pedo as the norm for trans or gay communities needs to be shot down as the disingenuous crap that it is, because we know damn well that we can hold up a cis/pedo or a hetero/pedo as the norm and it would obviously be just as invalid.

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              Oh I agree. The issue is that half of the population seems to be convinced that gay people are all pedos, because that’s the narrative that has been pushed lately. And shit like this only helps perpetuate the idea and add fuel to the fire.

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              I don’t doubt there’s people who are trans and also paedo, I expect the same prevalence in that group as any other group. But this list of trans-things is just mental. I’m finding it hard to accept someone could unironically claim to be all those things.

              Though I wonder if the transable thing is reference to those ridiculous people who like, deliberately blind or maim themselves because they ‘feel disabled’

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          They’re edgy teenagers. They’re hearing adults talk about these horrible trans pedophiles, and they want to rebel against their parents.

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        4Chan is obsessed with linking pedophiles and trans/lgbt peoples.

        Just from reading that description I would confidently assume the entire site is being faked.

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        It’s Poe’s Law in action. I’m mostly fairly accepting, but that is a straight up caricature and joke. Not one in particularly good taste, either.

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          I keep seeing messages in my inbox from this post that have a good number of downvotes and are deleted by the user or a mod. This is some hornet’s nest we’ve kicked.

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      What. In. The. Actual. Fuck.

      How can someone be so damn open about being such a terrible living being? I feel like I’m gonna puke.

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        How can someone be so damn open about being such a terrible living being?

        mohammad they even have a religion after it. many pedophiles are now converting to islam because of it.

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      What’s horrifying is the amount of pedo apologists on some lemmy instances. They screech that as long as they aren’t touching kids they’re free to be attracted to kids because it’s not hurting anyone. Anyone that looks at a kid and thinks sexual thoughts already crossed a line and should never be allowed access to children or the internet. Horrifying. Pedo is not a sexual orientation.

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        They screech that as long as they aren’t touching kids they’re free to be attracted to kids because it’s not hurting anyone

        The person in the quote you’re responding to is saying they actually abused a child and are defending that act. IMO this in particular should be much more harshly condemned; communities of people excusing and telling each other it’s ok to abuse children.

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          There seems to be so much of that on here. Really hope to see more moderation preventing all that bad faith fake LGBT assholes from posting shit especially when they’re pushing nambla trash.

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          That may be so, but they do have pedo/‘MAP’ magazines where people openly talk about being…umm…‘pro contact’. Fucking yikes.

          Not Safe For Work and Not Safe For Life, but screenshot evidence (not pornographic):

          https://imgur.com/a/sxu5dAJ

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            OK, that’s disgusting, but I can’t verify an image. There is not even a hint of the source.

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              That is the current front page of the MAP magazine on rqd2. You can look for it yourself or you can use this link. By all means don’t just take my word for it.

              I only preface this with one warning.

              I have moderated various platforms over the years, some with kids and some with vulnerable people including troubled teens and disabled people. I’ve seen just about everything and shaken off everything. The only exceptions involved the sexual abuse of minors. Those are the ones I remember. Dealing with this kind of stuff, even as just a moderator, an outside party if you will, hurt my soul.

              What’s on this page is by no means graphic, either in textual details or images, but is instead disturbing in another way. Knowing what kinds of situations the kids these people talk to are inches away from, or heck, possibly are neck deep in already, and they talk about it like you and I might talk on a relationship magazine on any other instance.

              You have been warned

              https://rqd2.net/c/map

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                Thank you, it didn’t look so bad on the front page, but I can see what you mean now. There are several posts that try to normalize pedophilia.

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                  If it was a lot more like ‘how do I deal with this so that the people around me are safe?’ I’d be a lot more sympathetic to the mag and instance to be honest.

                  There are some pedos that do their utmost to deal with it in a safe way, like avoiding kids where possible and getting psychiatric help. I’d have no problem at least leaving that group alone.

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          Uuuunfortunately, that turned out to be an easily-accessible post that was barely chopped up probably for brevity more than anything else. Wasn’t one of their students, it was some 8yr old at their apartment complex.

          Dunno if you’re from there or defensively made assumptions, but the MAP community was gonna come out fairly quick regardless and go over just as well.

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    It’s a disgusting, terrible instance. Back when I added them to our blocklist and fediseer they even had pedobear on display as if they were proud. They have a MAP community and Pedo memes.

    The link posted by OP has our findings in it with a few of their posts on an archive site for those who don’t want to go to the instance directly: (https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/rqd2.net)

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    Lemmy really really needs instance blocking. Yes I know some clients have it but Lemmy itself needs a way to enable users to fully block another instance and all of its communities.

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    Yeah, no. I’m defeding with them.

    Why must people do things like this it makes us all look bad

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        Bro they’re all like this heres one I just found They’re so absurdly crazy I almost believe it’s satirical even though I know they’re probably being honest with their opinions

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          Yeahhhhhhh, that’s just shitty fascist bait. I’m surprised no one has reported that instance to national authorities yet, it can’t federate if the people running it are busy with the FBI.

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          I can guarantee the vast majority of those posters are kids themselves just doing stupid cringey edgy kid things.

          “What’s the worst thing I can think of? Let me join a community in support of it, that will show my parents”

          Just look at that shit. It’s cringetopia.

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        What exactly do you mean? I’ve been meaning to set up Fediseer but I haven’t gotten around to learning about it, and would appreciate any guidance you could give me

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          With fediseer you can Endorse instances and then you can follow the blocks those instances do. So for example you endorse lemmy.world and literature.cafe and when either one of them adds an instance to their blocklist on fediseer they will also be blocked on your instance.

          You can even follow those blocks just for certain tags. Let’s say you don’t want to follow for “inactive admins” but you do want to follow for “neo-nazis” and “CSAM”.

          It’s pretty cool and the functionality keeps expanding. Before it was more like a ring of trust but the developers have really been listening to what the community wanted and there has been a ton of progress. It’s created by @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com and @rikudou@lemmings.world who added the gui and loads of extra features.

          https://gui.fediseer.com

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      It’s intentional, that flag was made by 4channers trying to push the “MAPs are part of the LGBTQ community” line, specifically to confuse with resemblance to the trans pride flag.

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      I mean this is real free speech. We might find what they say and talk about horrible. But that’s what real free speech gets you

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        Great strawman but no, this is not free speech, this is illegal content and laws exist to prosecute those who disseminate it. Free speech allows you to offend others … it doesn’t give you a pass to break the law.

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          As I said I find the whole trying to pass off pedophilia as something normal horrible. That doesn’t mean that them having their own instances and communities isn’t part of free speech.

          Real free speech isn’t censored by law.

          Again I’m just making an observation here it doesn’t mean I’m okay with this happening but this is what we signed up for, liberty has a cost.

          As far as I’m concerned those people should be put on a police watch list and have all their post be read by their local authorities lol

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        freedom of speech means that the government cannot censor you. Lemmy is not the government

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    The pedophile community is the largest local community and that should be all you need to know.

    EDIT: Relevant discussion over on reddit

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      Great, this just makes us look bad. We need to do something to stop the bad and we need to overshadow the bad with good

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        I hate that people associate things in this way. Like if I see a bad website I don’t think “wow Linux really sucks” or Nginx or Cloudflare or whatever other technologies they’re using. I don’t watch a bad movie and think the Blu-ray player is the problem.

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          Yeah, part of the problem is people thinking Lemmy is one thing instead of a web of lots of things but I still agree with you

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            Reddit had r/jailbait and the r/ the Donald. This instance is just a turd in a ocean of normal and niche communities.

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      You really made about 20 comments before doing even a basic amount of due dilligence, huh?

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        I apologize, I thought I did, I read the rules, and I read on the frontpage, and it seemed pretty harmless.

        And there were no posts here that showed anything actually wrong, but mostly what seemed like knee jerk reactions to the accusation.

        Had I dug one step deeper, I would have found it. But my diligence wasn’t diligent enough, and I wrongfully concluded it was an anti LGBT issue.

        Turns out I was mistaken, and yes I was a bit slow to figure that out.

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          Respect 👍

          More people need to learn how to gracefully accept mistake like you did, even myself.

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            Thank you. 😀 This mistake was a really bad one. I do NOT support pedophilia, but it may have looked like it. So better to admit fault.

            But I also believe truth is more important than ego.

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        He even reported people lol

        We were about to ban him for being a pedo apologist because of it. Luckily we did look a little deeper and saw that he had a realisation ;)

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      Looking at the instance, it’s horrifying, like 90% about fucking kids. They’re not even trying to hide it, so regardless of other legal paraphilia, it IS a pedo community… so you’ll be put on the watch lists too by joining.

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        Thanks. I hate politically correct language like this

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          It’s not real, it was a joke made by 4chan that stuck. Nobody is actually using that term unless they’re a pedophile

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            There are actual retards out in the wild that use the term to describe pedophiles unironically. No one likes them. Bully them.

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            The term is real, it’s even used in scientific literature. The term possibly even predates 4chan, or maybe it’s just a success on 4chan’s part, successfully laundering a term into scientific discourse? It’s hard to find too much solid evidence on the origin of the term. 4chan did seriously signal boost it with the whole “MAP Pride” thing though.

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          Its not real language.

          Its some bullshit cooked up by internet trolls, and accepted and used by right wing propagandists, as the latest thing to use to try and paint gay people as pedophiles.

          When, historically, we know the actual pedophiles are the ones falsely claiming gays are the danger to children.

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          It’s inclusive of both pedophiles and hebephiles - that is, prepubescent vs. pubescent children.

          So, it’s got that going for it. Treating them both the same.

          Unfortunately, it’s also used to obfuscate the fact that a MAP is a pedophile/hebephile. Which is bad.

          There are people who have messed up brains, who are attracted to kids, and hate themselves for it. They seek help (usually through lots of chemical treatments), and use the term MAP to separate themselves from the pedos. Unfortunately, pedos use the term MAP to hide the fact they’re pedos, so… 🤷

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              People like you are actually scum. Guy just answers a fucking question and some chode like you comes out of nowhere to call him a pedophile for it. He never said anything remotely in agreement with any of it. Fuck yourself and every other piece of shit that drops the word pedophile on anyone they don’t like. Pedophiles are real and they hurt real people and you using it as a word for anyone at random diminishes it’s purpose.

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                Tell us you’re not actually paying attention without telling us you’re not actually paying attention

                There are people who have messed up brains, who are attracted to kids, and hate themselves for it. They seek help (usually through lots of chemical treatments), and use the term MAP to separate themselves from the pedos.

                This is a lie meant to make pedophiles come off as sympathetic. They’re ALL terrible and there is no distinction between one pedo and another. If there’s anything that horrific instance should have shown anyone, it’s that. Any pedo who claims they hate themselves for it and are getting therapy are lying to you.

                Maybe actually read what’s being said before blowing a gasket.

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                  You’re a horrible person and I hope you never have to truly understand why what you’re doing is fucking horrible because that entails another child being harmed, but I do hope you get called a pedophile for no fucking reason in public and everyone just takes it at face value. Scumbag.

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    I hate people like that, they make the rest of us look terrible

    This is not acceptable in any way, shape, or form

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    How long has it been there? Months?

    The lemmy.ml devs were ok with Nazi instances being on join-lemmy “because people can just choose to join a different instance if they want” (or words to that effect) so it’ll be interesting to see how far they take that line of reasoning.

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      It looks like the instance has only existed for about a month, so it’s not too surprising it hasn’t been noticed before now.

      They already removed pedo instances before, so they’ll probably remove this one. They seem to draw a much harder line on pedophilia than politics.

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        CSAM will bring negative law enforcement attention, whereas nazi content will get you a big thumbs-up from the cops.

        edit: Downvoted by cops

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      That really surprises me considering their the lemmy devs’ leftist political beliefs

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        They’re authoritarian leftists, who support Putin. They have more in common with fascists than most people do.

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        That’s the thing with being pro free speech - it means not censoring speech you hate.

        Things quickly get complicated when the speech is (potentially) harmful.

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          This isn’t a censorship issue. This is a choice about whether to publicise and promote pedophiles or not. No website has a right to be included in join-lemmy listings.

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        They’re as leftist as the “communist” China. Or as “socialist” as the Nazis were. Just because someone calls themselves “communist” or “socialist”, doesn’t mean it’s true. And if you support China, Nazis, Soviet Union or its successor Russia, you’re not a communist or socialist.

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    1 year ago

    What the fuck… I’m just honestly taken aback by how in your face and blatant they are. Doing everything there but posting abuse content itself. Guess it’s a good thing they’re willingly putting themselves on the watch lists.