A recent analysis by Secjuice exposes a worrying trend: pedophiles and child porn have swamped on the liberal Twitter alternative where notable journalists have relocated. This startling revelation serves as an important reminder of why social media sites must continue to prioritize security against such illegal activities.
According to the research, there was a “flood of child porn” submitted to the forums when they first started in 2017. The problem was so severe that the two biggest child pornographic communities were ranked 2nd and 3rd on Mastodon, just behind mastodon.social.
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These were the 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,” explained Secjuice.
40% of all accounts on the website were connected to child pornography in 2017, which is disturbing. This alarming number serves as a warning that considerable effort has to be done to shield our future generations from such obscene material.
“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.
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Since its debut in 2017, the social media site Mastodon has seen an alarming increase of material featuring children. By April 24 of that same year, the greatest child pornography network had more postings than mastodon.social, which is Mastodon’s own community. This came as a shock and dismay to people who were on that site.
Secjuice said that three of the top five communities on the platform were based in Japan, accounting for almost 60% of members in August 2017, months after child pornography “invasion” the site.
A 2014 agreement to outlaw child pornography was put into effect by Japanese authorities in 2016. As a result, many of the authors and distributors of this unlawful content have relocated to Mastodon, a website with Twitter-like aesthetics that is especially well-liked in Japan. According to Secjuice, the majority of criminals used Mastodon as a haven so they wouldn’t have to deal with police scrutiny.
The development of Pixiv, a popular picture hosting website, might be credited as a possible cause for the worrisome spike in child pornographic posts that happened in April 2017. Named after the renowned book “Lolita” by Vladimir Nabokov, when it joined Mastodon, there were far-reaching repercussions that are still being felt today.
In order to prevent the spread of child pornography, engineers added adult labels on potentially dubious content. Along with making it easier for consumers to filter out such information, these tags also made it less visible in search results.
“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 explained.
