You're conflating two things. Our ethical stance is against actual noncon. Ethically, we don't have a problem with CNC as long as it's actually, verifiably CNC. CNC is prohibited now because of federation issues, not because we have an issue with the depiction of CNC in general.
Once we're able to keep certain things from federating, whether that's via @limeey's NSFW+ tag or some other method, CNC is probably the first thing we'll phase back in.
yuuuuuuuuup. But that's why they pay us the big bu- wait, what's that? we're not getting paid? Then why the fuck am I even here? Call my agent!
What mastodon is to twitter, and lemmy is to reddit, matrix is to discord/slack.
Correct. For now. In the future, will you be able to post the excruciatingly long rape scene from Irreversible (assuming you comply with fair use provisions, of course)? Probably. But for right now that'll get you banned.
No it's not. At least in the US, OF creators are performers, which falls under free expression and is therefore protected 1st amendment activity. Sexual services involve, you know, touching and stuff.
Does this mean that we are not allowed to post other OC’s content here without their knowledge/consent?
Yup, if we find out about it, we will remove that image. repeat offenses will result in suspensions or bans. Keep in mind we have no way of knowing whether or not you have consent, so we will assume that you do unless we have reason to believe otherwise.
what about crossposting a post that an OC has made in a community to other communities within this instance,
Super easy to get permission for that, super easy for OP to call you on it if you don't. Just ask!
What if the person/people involved in the post are not members here of this lemmy instance, but elsewhere in fediverse or websites elsewhere - does it make it ok to post their OC then without consent simply because they are not “members”?
Nope.
What about unattributed photos/images grabbed off the web. How do we get consent?
So this is a great question. The very base level of consent we're looking for is "is this person OK with being naked on the internet". If we think that that's missing -- if it's revenge porn, leaked, deepfake, straight up noncon, or if it's ambiguous -- then we will pull the image. If we think the person is OK with being naked on the internet, then we'll probably let it pass unless we have more info. Like I have no idea if that person has licensed this photo CC share alike or all rights reserved, if they want people to spread it around or they don't, and I'm not going to bother investigating because I have a life outside of this site. If that person ever pops up and says hey, this is pirated content, please remove it, I will comply.
[Addition] Are moderators primarily responsible for enforcing this rule and banning/removing content posts? Can moderators be reported/removed from comms for NOT enforcing these rules for posters and by allowing posters to ignore this rule and allow such content in their comms?
Yes, and eventually yes though we would try to work with the mod to solve the issue first. Removal would be a last resort.
We will honor any DMCA claims and any requests from studios to try to proactively keep their content off of our servers. If someone links to an outside host, there's less we can do about that. DMCA reporting procedures are in process now.
Rebecca from Cyberpunk is clearly characterized as an adult who is small due to body modification and, IDK, hormones? Anyway she's not a child in any meaningful way. I see no problem there. I'm not a zelda guy so I can't speak to that other example.
Depends. Is it kink.com, assylum, pascalsubsluts, hookuphotshot or any number of other reputable, aboveboard producers with a minimum number of strikes against them? Probably fine. Is it like some random grungy dungeon with no identifiable people and no way of sourcing? It has probably got to go.
Yeah then message an admin.