sensitive topics; discussions about rule 7just received an interesting email, so let me put this out here:
rule 7 is mainly for the safety of this server, and it's also meant to ensure there's 0 questioning what the intent of this instance is.
MAP flag iconography, regardless of what you want to believe or not, is primarily used by people who illicit intent on harming real-world children. i've had to remote suspend a user from baraag who draws art w/ those flags, in which they also had a verifiable alt-account on a now dead instance which promoted pro-contact (read: wants to harm children) content.
to be clear: i am in support of paraphiles, they can not help their attractions, and frankly the way society treats them is horrific. but with that said, paraphiles who decide to act on their urges, thinking there's nothing wrong with that, are not good people. and those are not the kind of people who will ever be allowed near this instance. those people are the primary bearers of the MAP flag, and are definitely the loudest with it. no matter how hard you try, you can not separate this crowd, so to depict it in your art is to depict a flag used by real-world child abusers.
there is a lot of nuance with discussion like this, and i'm aware there's not a whole lot of it here, but the main point is that flag iconography representing paraphilias are almost always used to represent harmful ideals, even if it's intent by someone else is to just show they have this paraphilia and do not wish to ennact real-world harm.
i do desperately wish there were more fediverse spaces that don't promote horrible ideals about consent while still allowing for paraphiles. but i'm not setting this instance up for that. this instance is for freaky art made by queers, and that's that. if you want that kind of space, make it yourself.
you do not get to demand people bow to your whim about the spaces they make at their expense. if you have a problem with this, again, i implore you make your own space.
and just as an aside, saying you want my instance to be more like ATF in the same breath you're putting into question this instance being a safe space? that is extremely laughable, in the face of that website being extremely queerphobic.
sorry if this was rambly, i'm recovering from a technology-induced migraine.
saw some ai slop post that was being posted (it was posted in a community making fun of said ai slop), but the comments all pointed out this being... lolibait? and cubs???
y'all know me posting this here means i love lolis and stuff, but that never occured to me as i watched this weird-ass video.
so, all i can do is say "a hungry man thinks of bread" to these people lmfao
@maya i was meaning bounce as in "admin doesn't accept it" lol
since you're a mod there, i'm hoping it won't have the rampant transphobia issues inkbunny has, especially since the site owner of inkbunny was basically like "so what, trans people are mentally ill" about it all
okay i'm really tilted now, they list an actual server that harbors people who talk about wanting to do real child abuse... as "lolishota"???? are you fucking joking????
me, posting cub art to deal with my trauma: pedo
people discussing how they want to rape kids: lolishota
it gets real fucking interesting when i find out they just do media removal for pawoo.net, for "lolishota"
so they defed all these other instances for lolishota, defed mine for """pedo"""
but they don't defed pawoo.net... which had a very infamously bad CSAM problem, that was so bad in fact, it caused their domain registrar to temporarily suspend them.
granted, the situation is better these days i'm told, but this just illustrates my point that i'm being targetted by these dickheads, y'know? if you've adminned an instance for any length of time, you fucking knew what pawoo was doing. and if you didn't know somehow... well, that gives you 0 authority to slander me, you fucking cunts.
i don't care if instances defed mine, it's like... yeah, we host cub content here, it's contentious stuff so idc.
but when you defed my instnace and call it a "pedo" instance... and especially when it's among a list of instances you accurately classify as "lolishota", then i can't help but to feel you're deliberately pedojacketing me.
you have to toss out the "pedo" word when the instance has .gay in it??? really??? you spineless morons crumble under the weakest alt-right propaganda i stg
still find it funny (in a sad way) that the piece i made to announce i'm leaving inkbunny got uploaded by someone else on e621, and the website's response to it (being horribly transphobic) also made me leave e621 lmfao
gee it's like people hate trans women or something
