Tim BrayDec 22, 2022

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/mask-network-acquires-pawoo-net-070000858.html

Tl;dr: Fediverse roll-up already had mstdn.jp and mastodon.cloud, now adds pawoo.net.

Oh really.

pawoo.net is widely de-federated because it’s full of lolicon. I just left mastodon.cloud because it was getting sketchy. Hey, now they’re all gonna have Web3 too.

#fediblock alert, obvs.

It’ll be interesting to see how the ecosystem reacts to to this sort of burgeoning EvilFedi.

“Take the ship up and nuke the site from orbit” is unfortunately not an available tactic.

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Show threadJulesy (but spicy)Dec 23, 2022

@timbray

It’ll be interesting to see how the ecosystem reacts to to this sort of burgeoning EvilFedi.

I figure evil instances divide into:

  • those that host trolls, which are easy to starve of their victims by fediblock style moderation and so are short lived.

  • those where the users are happily sending each other pictures of sexualised children and don't even need federation with other instances not also in EvilFedi. in that case, eventually, law enforcement will probably get involved.

Show threadTim Bray
@snarglebritchet Sigh, the problem is that what pawoo.net and mastodon.jp are doing is perfectly legal in Japan (almost nowhere else in the world).
Dec 23, 2022 at 9:26pmWeb