Journos Love Twitter’s Top Competitor, Report Shows “Mastodon” Is Child Porn Legal?

A investigation by Secjuice It has been revealed that the most popular communities on Mastodon’s social media platform are those that contain child pornography. Mastodon experienced the “flooding of” in its first year. child porn” Being posted in its communities by 2017, the two largest child pornography community were second and third on the leaderboards by 2022. Only mastodon.social had more users.

Mastodon was just one year old when on April 14, 2017, they experienced an increase in users. This led to Mastodon’s growth from 160,000 users up to 300,000. The two communities that contained child exploitation content became the first and second largest communities in the “fediverse,” A network of interconnected servers or websites that are based on distributed networking protocols. These communities overtook the platform’s mastodon.cloud and mastodon.social communities.

These were the top ten in 2022. “…two most active communities by a large margin in terms of total postings, ranking first and second with 60 million posts each against mastodon.social’s 40 million posts,” Secjuice wrote. 

After Elon Musk’s purchase, Mastodon saw more success TwitterA number of accounts announced that they were moving to this platform.

Also, among them leaving Twitter According to Mastodon, Stephen Fry, a comedian and actor from the UK was chosen. Deadline.

2017 saw child pornography account make up about 40% of the total fediverse, and around 50% if smaller satellite groups are considered.

“In orbit around the two big child porn Mastodon instances sprung up hundreds of smaller instances containing an additional 40k users distributing the same sort of content,” Secjuice wrote.

These accounts flooded Mastodon with child sexual abuse material, and on April 24, 2017, the total number of posts on the largest child pornography community overshadowed the total number of posts made on mastodon.social, a community operated by Mastodon since the platform’s inception.

Secjuice discovered that August 2017, months after the initial announcement, Secjuice reported that it was actually August 2017. “invasion” The platform has a total of 59 percent child pornography. Three of the top five communities were hosted in Japan.

Mastodon has been made to look like Twitter. Japanese authorities started to crackdown on child pornography after a 2014 law made it illegal. Secjuice reported that the majority of child pornographers in Japan moved to Mastodon to avoid reporting to the police.

Secjuice said that the origin of the surge in child pornography postings during April 2017 could be traced back the Pixiv website, which is a popular lolicon hosting site. The name Pixiv was derived from the novel. “Lolita,” When the website joined Mastodon.

Developers added a mature image label to these posts. They made it easy to filter child pornography but also to ban the content. “crippled” Secjuice searches

“Because there is no central Mastodon authority nobody can stop the pedophiles from using Mastodon, and because there are so many pedophiles on Mastodon, the developers decided that it was best to just go ahead and hide them. They had to hide them if they wanted their platform to grow,” Secjuice wrote.

Elon Musk, a new CEO and owner of Twitter, has announced that he will eradicate child exploitation content. top priority On the platform. This content was not removed from the platform prior to Musk’s acquisition.