Comment by numpad0

So to cut all sugarcoating off, the problem isn't criminals doing knowingly criminal things. It's Japanese users disporportionately obliterating Twitter-style social media and absolutely hammering the system with bunch of risque selfies that don't look adult to Europeans and anime style arts that don't involve child in making, neither of which qualify as CSAM by local laws and therefore not understandable to offending Japanese users in context of potential legal outcomes such that it would change majority behaviors. It is simply legal as drinking at legal ages.

This Japanese flood casually nears or exceeds 50% of content by volume and is a specifically Japanese phenomenon; it does not generalize into Asian cultures or Sinosphere languages[1] - all the others are easily 1% or less or proportional relative to English. It also isn't happening with Facebook but it is with Mastodon.

To be even more frank, everyone should just set up a Japanese containment server with an isolate IdP, and get Yahoo! Japan or NTT Corp fund it, have it monetized via phone contract or something, and that could solve a huge bulk of problems with microblogging moderation. Then everyone could go back to weeding out those few of actual pedophiles, smugglers and casino spams, occasionally reinstating not-too-radical political activists.

Should "outside" users be eligible for signup with such isolate system is a separate problem, but that will be foreign crime anyway and should not bother the main branch operators that cater to the rest of the world that CAN unite.

1: https://bsky.app/profile/jaz.bsky.social/post/3klwzzdbvi22t

2: worse version of [1]: https://images.ctfassets.net/vfkpgemp7ek3/5kYcWXcFUYSLBAEkrS...