I think it just auto-discovers federated instances and randomly shows them on the page unless explicitly disabled...

Seems like the kinda thing that comes down to "because it hasn't been explicitly told not to yet". It's a computer grabbing from an ever changing pool of instances based on parameters, not a person hand picking what they like. Computers aren't usually aware of social ques or laws...

I don't have a link, but the lemmy creators (and maintainers of join-lemmy) answered this in a AMA about a month ago. They said they'd prefer the horrible people concentrate in their own instances so we can block them easily rather than have them in our instances. The join lemmy list does not serve as an endorsement, but a catalog of all available instances.

Sry about that yall, I was out today.

Its gone now thx to @SleeplessOne1917@lemmy.ml .

Any admins as well as anyone that runs instance discoverers / crawlers like join-lemmy.org be sure to update your blocklists,.

Edit: In the future if anyone could make PR's to this file, we'll try to get to them ASAP.

Jesus Christ the first local post I saw after checking it out was a meme about being a MAP from a user called "Matt Walsh"

I mean that's hilarious but also damn it really isn't a queer/kink instance that's messed up

Thanks to your awareness, its now the most popular listed.

That was an interesting rabbit hole I just went through. There was a post about French postmodern philosophers who defended pedophilia that was posted on that instance as a validation to their cause, meanwhile all the comments under the video are of people recounting their trauma of being sexually assaulted as children.

I'll just leave these here...

https://www.rainn.org/news/how-prevent-child-sexual-abuse-material-csam

https://www.missingkids.org/cybertiplinedata

Dam, that's sad. That was the first instance I tried to sign up with but it wouldn't get past the verified email part. Guess that's a good thing, I had to look me into it as I thought this post was just another alt right witch hunt for trans people. Maybe a kink instance could be made with hard rules about that stuff. Really a LGBT community with a wiki would be good. I just got on here so maybe something like that already exists.

Err, are you sure about your words op? I just looked at their sidebar and it looks pretty clear about that, no?

Quoting :

"Nothing illegal under US (specifically Nevada) or local law. You know what that includes. (In case you don’t know what that includes, I mean child pornography [anything that fails the Dost Test], sexually interacting with minors, etc.) We have a zero tolerance policy for anything that fails the Dost test. Anything violating it will result in an immediate ban and removal of images. No admitting to anything that could cause the server to go under investigation, such as looking at child porn."

Edit : Well, looks like they don't enforce this rule indeed.