Apparently there is an issue surrounding the instance artalley.social and whether or not they are supportive of pedophilia/pedophilic art. For those not in the know, an instance admin on the fedi reported content of a canon underage character being posted on the instance - a direct violation of the "sexual depictions of children" rule on artalley.social's about page. [1] The artalley.social administrator's response was to write it off, claiming the characters "seem to be drawn as phsyically adult," in a private correspondence with whalefall that they posted to their administrative profile. [2, 3, 4] Notice how curator attempts to state a physical appearance rule that is not codified anywhere in their Code of Conduct, as well as uses the threat of shutting down the "passion project" instance in order to demonize whalefall and position artalley as the injured party in this scenario.

Artalley also has a moderator, Dark Shadow M.D. Light. What does Dark Shadow have to say about this incident? The same things curator does. The "rumors" and "false accusations" from "a lightheaded admin" "that thinks everything is loli and nazi, but worse than that, they talk without any proof in their hands." [5]

Artalley would absolutely have let this slide forever and always had whalefall not reported the art to it and made it an issue. One glance at their public timeline while logged out shows that they still federate with pawoo [6], an instance already notorious for, guess what, sexual depiction of minors, even falling underneath the "appearance, not canon age" rule curator set up. Our moderator friend, Dark Shadow, also has a baraag alt, where he advertises YCH underage comissions. [7]

OOPS

Given the clear conflict of interest, lack of want to curate federation with instances that follow their code of conduct (and thus protect their own users from potentially harmful actors on the fediverse), and dismissiveness of a serious violation of their own code of conduct, it is clear that artalley.social does not care about sexual depictions of minors being on their instance, and has a vested interest in sweeping incidents like these under the rug and painting people that would challenge their deleterious moderation policies as the aggressors when they clearly present a greater danger to the wider fediverse.

You should defederate from artalley.social.