Special Article: Anti-c MAP Tumblr, Twitter and Fediverse - Material for Character Analysis

Our article documents screen-caps from anti-contact and some neutral-c pediverse spaces for the purpose of present and future character analysis. We have only constructed detailed profiles of individuals who have been accused of malicious behavior, intending to determine the validity, or otherwise of those claims. We do not publish any information that may be personally identifying.

Malicious or illegal behavior

Early Pediverse has suffered from occasional malicious incidents. Owing to the wild-west style of federated social networks, where anybody can set up a server, this behavior has sometimes been tolerated and perpetuated by instance owners. This has led some to call for professionalization, co-operativization, or higher levels of accountability in instance leadership, or the outright redaction of particular servers by way of defederation or suspension of domain. Domain suspensions put paid to the well-known, 1000+ user servers, Lolison and Childlove.space, and seriously damaged Youjo.love.

Iris [NNIA]

Chronic, or Iris, a member of NNIA, has a long history of doxing MAPs and consorting with pedophile hunters. This has been tolerated by the instance admin, Lecter, possibly because of compromising information held by Iris, one of his former online dates.

Lecter [NNIA Admin]

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  Admitted to sending minors pornography

Kay Faraday [FU Admin - former]

Kay Faraday, the former admin of freak.university (a highly successful pediverse instance) has shared compromising information about and entertained the idea of doxing other MAPs. This was often in the context of humor and irony, but had caused concern within the community due to her position at the time.

At this point, she is not active in administrating Fediverse instances, so is not considered an appropriate target for deeper character analysis.

Cult claims

Former NNIA members often claim to have experienced cult-like conditions. These claims have been investigated by Newgon and found to be false, both by analysis of alleged "cult"/"grooming" activities and probabilistic methods.

Language/Thought-Policing

Lecter (a self-identified authoritarian) has an obsession with language-policing, sometimes supported by others, but never quite as vainly. This has been realized in a series of bizarre threads. It is generally denied this is "thought policing", as the clique totally binarizes thoughts and behavior.

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  Maxxing is alt-right language

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Anti-expansionism/separatism

Lecter has at times signified the need to keep MAP spaces "deviant" and "degenerate", opposing attempts to expand the movement by capitalizing upon the considerable numbers of hebephiles who do not count themselves as members, or consider adoption of the stigma too risky. As a paraphilic hebephile, opposing political involvement of non-paraphilic hebephiles has been a balancing act for Lecter; something he appears to be fearful of, but something that might potentially sustain the community, and that is hard to fully denounce.

Defederation

Often, the rationale given for defederation of individuals and entire instances, while related to alleged harassment, in fact follows a pattern of Validity Policing. Illegal content aside, civil disagreement (individual bans), or uncivil individuals (instance bans) are the most common causes for defederation, suggesting control of discourse is more of a concern than civility.

Hivemind

In some cases, Pediverse users have supported neo-religious concepts, anti-logic and scientific movements that have been used to attack MAPs. Some anticultist ideas used aggressively against MAPs in the 1980s (such as the inextricably linked Dissociative Identity Disorder and Satanic Ritual Abuse) have seen a revival among fiction-loving MAPs themselves on Fediverse. While these are far from uniformly supported, and we will not fully document them here, it is hoped better education can combat disinformation within the community.

Struggle-sessions

NNIA users have engaged other users in a series of struggle-sessions over "bad" language or "ideologies" - Katie Cruz, a MAP activist from the 00s who supports what others describe as "assimilationist" MAP Rights strategy, is one common target.

Paraphilia-max

In some cases, extreme paraphilia and psychopathy have been falsely or wishfully linked to minor-attraction by way of self-identification and designing flags for particular identities. The justification given is intersectionality, which may occasionally be valid on an individual basis, so the community maintains a large trove of flags and identifiers for these occasions. While the identities concerned are anti-contact, and may or may not be adopted in good-faith, there is a potential here (with the wrong kind of attention) to further harm and undermine invalidated groups such as MAPs. Said tactic was used against the original FST platform in 2022 (rape accounts) and has been mentioned by a founder of B4U-ACT, Russel Dick.