I would also link this if you will: https://www.europol.europa.eu/crime-areas-and-statistics/crime-areas/child-sexual-exploitation

quote:

Child sexual exploitation refers to the sexual abuse of a person below the age of 18, as well as to the production of images of such abuse and the sharing of those images online.

This one: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2020/652718/IPOL_STU(2020)652718_EN.pdf

says the same applies to drawings and AI generated images.

That's up to the interpretation if individual country courts, but I would be wary nonetheless about pictures showing people that could look like teens.

Edit: downvote all you want, laws are laws, if you like to risk it, good for you, I don't.

If you choose an instance that has nsfw disabled, you can’t see those communities on lemmynsfw anyway, even via the search functions.

Instances that do have nsfw enabled needs to be careful as if one of their users goes onto an other instances community with illegal nsfw stuff, it’s cached on their servers anyway just like your browser caches the images and videos from websites. I guess the cache can be deleted on a cron job but still something I would wanna stay away from if I was a Lemmy instance admin. Defederating would be what stops this.

I’ll Be blocking it now on my server.

Shame :(

That was my second home after discovering my first planet.