I’m sure this will come as a disappointment to many of you as you have joined this instance specifically because we do not block or defederate with anybody. Unfortunately my hand is forced on this occasion. As many of you know this server is hosted in Ireland. It has been brought to my attention that under Irish law: Virtual child pornography is illegal in Ireland per the Child Trafficking and Pornography Act of 1998 which includes “any visual representation”.[Irish Statute Book] [http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1998/act/22/section/2/enacted/en/html#sec2] The country has strict laws when it comes to child abuse material, even if it doesn’t contain any “real children”. As you can understand this requires me to defederate and remove the offending material from my server. There are newer admin tools in the works which will allow me to block specific communities instead of whole servers. Once this is in place I will refederate with burggit and block the individual offending communities. This will also apply to other servers with offending content but as far as I’m aware burggit is the only one for the moment. I still maintain my ideal of not defederating as much as possible but sometimes its out of my hands. Thanks to everyone for helping create this vibrant community and for supporting. I am dedicated to make VLemmy the best it can be.

Another one down. Looks like their admin isn’t actively hostile to us, they’re just in a hostile jurisdiction:

I’m sure this will come as a disappointment to many of you as you have joined this instance specifically because we do not block or defederate with anybody. Unfortunately my hand is forced on this occasion.

As many of you know this server is hosted in Ireland. It has been brought to my attention that under Irish law:

Virtual child pornography is illegal in Ireland per the Child Trafficking and Pornography Act of 1998 which includes “any visual representation”.[Irish Statute Book] The country has strict laws when it comes to child abuse material, even if it doesn’t contain any “real children”.

As you can understand this requires me to defederate and remove the offending material from my server. There are newer admin tools in the works which will allow me to block specific communities instead of whole servers. Once this is in place I will refederate with burggit and block the individual offending communities.

This will also apply to other servers with offending content but as far as I’m aware burggit is the only one for the moment.

I still maintain my ideal of not defederating as much as possible but sometimes its out of my hands.

Thanks to everyone for helping create this vibrant community and for supporting. I am dedicated to make VLemmy the best it can be.

  • DisaMA
    6•1 year ago

    They definitely seem to be an allied instance. I actually reached out in good faith. Here’s a link to the post I made: https://vlemmy.net/comment/777250

    and here’s just a screenshot for those who don’t want to follow links.

    I hope we see more instances like vlemmy in the future.

    • f(loat || loathe)
      3•1 year ago

      just made a fed tools checking thing to expand my probing later

      https://github.com/floathe/lemmy-federation

      i’m actually somewhat glad i know of vlemmy now cuz the admin is pretty nice overall :) i was signed up there & left when he announced this but i will keep it at the top of my favorites list for free browsing, maybe when they refed burggit i’ll check it again

      • @BurgerA
        3•1 year ago

        Uhh, this leads to a 404. It’s okay, if you’re too shy to share your code, but I just wanted you to know this, in case this was unintentional. :3