Can somebody remind me about how this works again on the fediverse please? When a federated server goes down, does its content and comments - which presumably were circulated to other federated servers - still exist? Can you do something like a raid parity reconstruction?

The posts and comments can still be seen across the Fediverse. Images and videos are going to depend, your instance may have cached it, or maybe the post was to externally hosted media. In these cases the media will persist. However in the majority of cases the photos and videos were uploaded directly and will be lost.

For example: [NSFW, obviously] https://thelemmy.club/c/boobs@lemmynsfw.com?dataType=Post&sort=TopAll (your instance may be automatically translating that link)

It appears that nothing is wrong... Other than there's no new content.

Actually the lemmynsfw image servers appear to be up for now. So if anyone wants to archive do it now.

This part worries me. Do we know where the server was located? Any chance they were arrested for the site breaking some law? I hope they are okay, whatever happened.

The current way the fediverse exists is all the posts and users only really exist on the host domain. So if it goes down everything is effectively lost. It might exist briefly on some servers, but it takes manual intervention to save it, and it can't be re sent out to anyone.

I wouldn't have known I blocked that shit. I don't give a fuck.

You have 1 post and 99 comments in 9 months, the fact that I'm being brigaded by such accounts must mean I'm doing something right.

I've reported a few sketchy posts to authorities, if the mods are doing there jobs then nothing bad will come of it.

It was more of an analogy to how we consume our media and why. The almighty Algorithm and no algorithm at all being two extremes, we're closer to the latter.

I have multiple accounts. That's how fediverse works.

so no... you don't have anything more than wild speculation.

You want me to send you links to CP? jfc, dude.

skipping over the part where you, without any evidence, say it's the admins fault....

"But if I don't make all communities bend to what I want, they're the bad guy!"

Moderators are not Admins, but my statement is that I would not be surprised if a specific circumstance were the case.

If you think it's absurd that unverified naked women have images of themselves on lemmynsfw, idk what to tell you.

...you ask one simple question.

I'm sure the lack of proof is just a coincidence. Maybe someday Banjo will have some.

They provably have already implemented as much "manually intervention" as possible. More than that would become detrimental.

I don't think it's absurd that it happened.

i think you underestimate the amount of CSAM that gets put on places like a random Lemmy instance. every admin that allows random people to post has to deal with this.

also, the problem with Lemmy nsfw instance, is the admin has gone missing and there's no one to fix it.

so again, you just have wild accusations of them misshandeling of CSAM.

edit: here's where I'm at. (applying the little I know of US law) The crime here isn't that CSAM got submitted so long as it was dealt with and reported. That's not actually a crime. US law doesn't hold hosting companies responsible for user submitted content. (section 32).

What is a crime is doing nothing about it.

so with that in mind, do you still accuse the moderators of a crime?

we're also talking about the admin gone missing here, not moderators.