The most active instance, Pawoo, was started by Pixiv after Twitter banned lolicon. Pawoo is blocked/silenced by many instances in the west. Pawoo is no more the property of Pixiv since 2020.
Pretty sure I said as much in another thread and got excoriated for it because #NotAllFediverseNodes. Well, here's your proof: the Fediverse is largely populated with all manner of sexual content that is intolerable pretty much everywhere else, hence why nobody wants to use it.
Guys, there's like four layers of defence between you and the big bad porn:
1. Your instance having banned misbehaving porn instances. A.K.A. all instances that are exclusively meant for porn/sex work.
2. You not following porn accounts or accounts that boost porn posts.
3. Porn having an NSFW content warning (literally haven't seen non-blurred porn yet).
4. You personally blocking/reporting porn instances/accounts that get through to your feed by the means of a boost.
Or - here's a wild idea - degenerate porn is so ubiquitous on the Fediverse that we'll all just steer clear of it because the effort required to remove it is too great because:
1. Instances that have banned porn instances are few and far between.
2. Not following porn accounts is simple enough, except that so many accounts share porn.
3. There's no way you haven't seen non-blurred porn yet.
4. Playing whack-a-mole with instances/accounts on Fediverse is about as productive as it is on Twitter... which is to say they'll be back in under five minutes.
It's a passionate place we have here at HN in a lot of ways too.
I like that the Internet is for passion, even if it's essentially kitted out most people with a straight up zippo lighter when it comes to satisfying the human need for that burning kind of sensory heat.
The "Fediverse" should focus on _CON-federation_ making the /private/ individual autonomous.
Otherwise people will simply be swapping a couple of emperors for many kings.
To realise this and solve most problems, hosting instances must be made as easy, cheap and convenient as possible.
isnt't there some sort of confederation as you are mentioning in fediverse now?
like you, as an instance admin/owner/mod can have your mod decisions public, there can be a public mod log, you can share block lists with other instances.
this instance has their rules public and other instance owners can decide, often with users inputs of a remote instance should be blocked or not. others are free to accept or reject their decisions but yeah...
many kings is fine so what do you suggest? every person has their one person instance? sure
a person has to be tech literate enough to buy and set up a domain. if they can do that, even if following online guides, they should have no trouble installing any of these services
The fediverse automatically becomes a confediverse when everyone hosts for themselves
So yes, what you are saying is right although not relevant for NORPS.
Ideally, we'll see people selling instances as a service payed via a management app in the playstore or something. I'm disgusted by the playstore as it's against my values, but I make this argument because if it's not convenient & easy, people will not use it and rather sell their rights and freedoms ( And those of others without realising ) for whatever is convenient and easy.
