Title: I ran a popular D* pod for about 7 years, called Cryptospora.net. We had approximately 30,000 users signed up. It was with much regret that I I shut my pod down, permanently, last month. Here&#x27;s why.<p>There were certain neo-Nazis who would get banned from pod after pod, but they just kept signing up at new or foreign-language pods, and it was impossible to prevent neo-Nazi content from being shared to my pod and being displayed in my feed. There is CURRENTLY a large amount of child pornography being shared on the D* network. It became impossible for me to stop child-porn content or neo-Nazi hatespeech content from being shared to my pod and displayed to my users.<p>I made a thread in the Discourse channel for Diaspora podmins, and a github issue ticket. I suggested that the programmer community within D* come together to implement some form of OPTIONAL federated moderation system, so that I could import ban lists from other pods (ones with an actual staff) and make my ban lists available for other pods to import, based on some standardized TOS formats.<p>The D* core devs BANNED me from their CENTRALIZED forums for podmins, including their Discourse channel, their Github issues system, and their reddit sub. Apparently discussions about moderation are a bannable offense for these guys, and they are ADAMANT that there will NEVER be any effective network-wide system for preventing child-pornography abuse being posted to their network.<p>I would suggest that if YCombinator still owns shares in the Diaspora Foundation, they should consider rescinding ownership of those shares, and potentially suing the Diaspora Foundation for their money back. YCombinator should not be an unwilling share-owner of a child-porn sharing network.
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