Defederating from lemmy.comfysnug.space due to legal concerns and a note on "loli porn" instances in general

It was brought to my attention that lemmy.comfysnug.space also hosts "loli porn". This content is illegal in New Zealand as well as many other countries.

Needless to say they have been defederated and all their communities purged from our server.

I'm mostly posting this in the spirit of transparency as I don't think this affects anyone here.

Please let me know if you do come across another similar instance, there are simply too many of them out there for me to check proactively.

I sincerely hope that this was the last of them, but if there are more, I also don't think it's worth me making an announcement every time we defederate one. I may instead create a generic defederation post where we keep tabs on who we defederated and why, but I welcome your feedback.

As a reminder, the Lemdit ethos sets out our stance on federation, notably:

Defederating from other instances is an absolute last resort and we will only do so under the following circumstances:

• If their content has the potential to get us into legal trouble
• If they are acting as an attack vector towards us