:alert_rgb: IMPORTANT :alert_rgb:

This is about pawoo, I was thinking about defederating from them, but that's hard to do cause it's used by a lot of Japanese artists. For now warning people should be enough.

Pawoo used to be pixiv's mastodon instance, but for some reason they got tired of it and sold it to some shady Japanese company called Russell.
Now the largest fedi instance is an unmoderated shithole full of pedo coomers. There's only one lazy guy that moderates the instance every once in a while.

The place also got plagued with feds running a sting operation spamming links to alleged CP, frequently they also post said links with 3DCG images.
Those links will install malware to log the IP and information from anybody that clicks them to send it to feds.

This has the potential to get you in deep shit.
Please be extremely careful about any sus links coming from pawoo.
If you happen to see one of them or you get a DM from them report it immediately and don't lick it for any reason ever.

"Only pedos would click those"
Not exactly, they frequently come with 3DCG or even 2d images, so it's not explicit as you might imagine.
Also there's always the possibility of clicking it by accident from a DM on mobile or just being :retard: and clicking it just because.