I know you're replying to Burger, but I had some things I wanted to share about my views on this topic and why I personally think the way I do.

First, before I add anything, I must clarify I do not support/endorse/encourage any activity involving sexualizing a real life minor.

Now for my opinions on MAPs.

You mention that you view MAPs as a way to publicly signal a sort of "Hey contact me for you know what. ;3" And I'm not saying there aren't people like that, I'm positive there are. How I view it though is being a pedophile is literally the worst thing in the world anyone could be. Like actually a terrible curse. While i'm sure some pedophiles have no issues with this affliction they are given. I feel like the most unfortunate thing is that those who do feel bad about it have 2 options.

1. keep it secret and never tell anyone ever and just try their best with their own thoughts.
2. occupy other pedophile spaces and have other pedophiles tell them "you're normal, it's OKAY to sexualize children!" and essentially be sent to an echo chamber.

If a pedophile was to try and get therapy, they're going to get arrested, they're not going to get help (with a few exceptions depending on the country.)

I always felt that was the difference between "pro-contact" and "no-contact" MAPs, the "pro-contact" maps being more likely to be ones who are fine with their affliction and find absolutely asinine ways to justify it and indulge in it. Where as the "no-contact" MAPs are more likely to be people who admit "I have a problem." And I know this isn't the case for everyone. I just think excluding these people just serves to further radicalize them.

This is basically my opinion on other groups as well. I believe that blocking these people off just serves to further radicalize them as they find their own little echo-chambers which do nothing but encourage ever-growing dangerous urges and behavior. This isn't saying that this will prevent people from finding those places and going into those echo-chambers, but it's giving them the option not to.

To be clear I'm not asking you to change your opinion. You seem to be rather reasonable as to why you think what you do, I actually appreciated the clarification in your post. Wanted to kind of do a little clarifying of my own.

Sharkey is a platform, just like Lemmy. Lemmy is a project ran by several communists (The official Lemmy instance will ban you if you say negative things about the CCP). Sharkey is the most fully featured Misskey fork. We chose it entirely due to that and separate from anything else. It does not mean we agree with their politics (because we don't)

We're not “welcoming” MAPs we just aren't excluding them. Burggit has always allowed MAPs to exist on the platform, this has never changed. We take a very similar stance (if not the exact same) on the Sharkey, we even explicitly do not allow anything supporting or endorsing actual child endangerment/abuse. It's stupid to exclude someone if they are following the rules of the platform. If they are managing to behave themselves and maybe subdue their urges through non-violent/non-harmful means, I sure don't have a problem with that.

The people who would defederate are going to do that anyway. My own separate instance, Shota.house has been defederated to hell and high water, despite only having a single digit active user count. There's not realy any instance I can think of which allows loli/shota. But would ban an instance outright for simply allowing MAPs to be on the site, provided said MAPs were behaving themselves and were not encouraging/endorsing any dangerous IRL activities. Anyone else would've likely defederate us, regardless of whether we allowed/disallowed MAPs.

Our stances have never changed. I'm sorry if you don't like it, you have no obligation to use any of it. Like Burger mentioned in the post before mine, we are entirely self funded. We run platforms we want to be on, and we run them in a way we'd like to see a platform be run, while also taking into account the needs of other users.

sorry for the late reply, everything you'd need to know is on https://kyun.host/

Kbin has many of the same issues lemmy does, specifically there's no way to clear old image cache making it essentially a growing storage nightmare. There's also been no updates to the software in over 4 months and the last time burger tried updating it, everything broke, forcing us to go to a backup.

It feels like it would be going down a similar rabbit hole where the expense the instance would require to keep running would just grow and grow, and I wouldn't be able to shoulder such a growing expense.

However, we'd be willing to look into setting up mbin as the project matures, since it's getting updates rather frequently.

as far as shota.nu. It's running open-source software called linx-server

Shota house is invite only because while it has a similar mission, it's more so my cozy space. It's existed for a while before Burggit and has always been on an approval only basis, this is to make moderation easier on me and also protect myself from bad actors and what not.

While i'd love to connect burggit and shota house in a way which would automatically let people join shota house. If they have had a burggit account for over a certain amount of time and have a certain amount of posts/activity. I'm frankly not technically minded enough to do such a thing. So the process will remain manual.

As for how I find these various services, there are a ton of various ways to find federated services such as https://fediverse.party/ which is where I first discovered various federated technologies. But I know others exist.

Shota House and Mastodon are both based on Activitypub. Shota House uses something called Akkoma which is a fork of Pleroma which itself is meant to be a super lightweight version of Mastodon, since Mastodon is legendarily bloated and hard to setup/maintain.

Hope this answers your questions.

There's https://shota.house which is a loli/shota safe twitter-like platform that @burger@Burger@burggit.moe and myself run. Here's an invite link: https://shota.house/registration/EdCGgm8zBpFuMFKpVrCvOZOP5VKvEwDCGLyJr_M4rZY= just sign up and log in. (Good for multiple people, if other Burggit users want to join)

There's also baraag.net which is a very large art posting instance (also twitter-like) for loli/shota enjoyers.

There's https://gelbooru.com/ which is an art posting gallery where you can find various anime images, including loli/shota (but has to be enabled in settings)

there's https://allthefallen.moe/ which runs various loli/shota focused sites/services.

that's basically all I know of at the moment.

The disclaimer is not necessary, however removing it without touching the code would be fairly difficult due to the way the LemmyNSFW fork is setup. Makes everything super hard to navigate and modify. All the code is minified and otherwise obscured beyond human comprehension. This is why we replace the text as opposed to removing the actual disclaimer altogether.

Thanks for this, lol. my bad.

You could probably use a service like Crypton.sh to get a phone number to attach to Telegram, while not linking it to your actual identity. I've used this method for various sites which require phone verification.

While that might be true, people have many different tastes and there's lots of fetish content on this site. What might be appealing to one person could severely disturbing to another. It's best not to flash people (in my opinion) with a ton of expanded NSFW images if they do not want to expand them. Back when we had things auto expand and unblurred, I personally saw some things that I was not personally ready for. Not like they outright disturbed me or anything, but they were just more than I was bargaining for in that very moment.

And having no NSFW shown at all unless you make an account makes the site seem like it's way less active than it is. We've actually noticed a few new faces show up since we implemented the patch, I don't exactly know if it's due to the patch or not, but it's definitely noticeable.

We tried an app called Boost and didn't have any issues. And it'd be very difficult for us to make sure the site (which we are prioritizing the desktop experience for) worked on all the apps. Since they all might have their own little quirks as to how they grab/display content.

I'm not familiar with any apps, we've always suggested use of the web app as we found other apps were lacking in multiple ways.

I also think with the patches applied it kind of makes the best of both worlds, since people can see NSFW posts, but they aren't immediately flashed with NSFW content if they don't want to look at it.

Happy to be back!