Laguna.chat has a lot of really racist communities
Just saw a post on reddit alternatives and there was a comment inviting users to laguna.chat. I went and checked it out and the trending communities list included, ‘jews did 911’, ‘killnirs’, ‘hitler was right’, and 'Fuck Nirs’. One of the user accounts was u/HangNi***rs.
Hey Laguna Chat, get your shit together.
Edit: markdown defeated me again. I think you can figure out what those words are.
Saw the bad content get deleted as I was checking it out. The instance looks clean now. Funnily enough, the top post is asking about sudden nsfw content, and one of the comments a gif of someone literally shitting.
Are you sure it was laguna.chat ? I just glanced through the thread that is top of their homepage (Trump’s latest indictment by a grand jury) and the comments were all against Trump. Other posts seem like normal Lemmy stuff, no insane right wingers yelling about space Jews that I could find
I've been browsing All and occasionally there are batshit insane communities, saw a silly post and commented on one recently and turned out the loony op was the mod and only allowed poster of the community who threw insults then banned everyone who commented.
Some people are certified loons.
I've been using All to discover new communities, but man is there some real insane people out there.
The homepage opens on the “All”, which shows stuff from outside the instance. Checking the “Local” shows a number of porn posts. Showing only commentaries instead of posts, the current newest one is a “porn” gif of a woman shitting on the floor.
Browsing from the web, the rest of the commentaries seemed to revolve around a user not being able to see outside communities. On the right, there were the shit communities OP mentioned that should be reported.
It feels like s legal liability to start a instance and not police it. People could upload CP and you would be on the hook because you are the server owner and clearly did nothing to stop it.
That can’t be accurate otherwise it’d be incredibly easy to have maliciously taken down “the Fediverse” long ago. There might not be a direct Fedi distinction in the law and it might be too complex for the average district attorney to understand on the surface but that doesn’t equate to “everyone is breaking the law” if something illegal shows up on a feed.
The short, definitely not legal advice version is that it only becomes a crime if you have actual knowledge that there is CP on your server, and you fail to block access to it and make the legally mandated report.
The law was written with ISPs hosting email and websites for paying customers in mind, but it applies equally well to anonymous user-generated content, federation, and other scenarios we may not have even imagined yet. Being an inattentive server admin is a valid legal defense, though actually having to use it in court would be stressful and expensive.
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