I do understand where you're arguing from, but I'd argue that from a basic human decency perspective, you shouldn't be pointing people towards an instance that, again, was so notorious for being filled with CSAM that prolific child predators like GigglyGoonclown would point people they were grooming towards it to get them hooked on child porn.
And the issue of the "social vacuum" should be solved by just interacting with people on other instances. The overwhelming majority of the people I follow are off of Nicecrew. This is what federation is for.
Given that some of the most fediblocked instances are defedded due to FUCKING CHILD PORN, I'd recommend maybe qualifying your onboarding advice with "don't join instances with SHITLOADS OF CHILD PORN ON THEM".
Actually, aside from Pawoo's issues regarding CSAM, why are you encouraging people to sign up to the biggest instances anyway? Shouldn't you be pushing for more people to sign up to more moderately sized instances, so in the event of, oh I don't know, a domain being seized, less users would be cut off from Fedi?
Assuming that those 700K+ users had no involvement in in any of the CSAM stuff, would it not be preferable that those 700K+ people get off the instance that wasn't doing a sufficient job removing CSAM?
I do get the pro-federation position, but if that means you're bringing a bunch of people onto an instance with THAT much CSAM, you'd probably be better off waiting for an alternative choice to become viable.
The situation is not so urgent or dire that people need to settle for fucking CSAM City. Quit kidding yourself. Point them somewhere else at the very least, man.
If endless floods of CSAM is this allegedly unavoidable outcome of Pawoo being up because there's just nothing that the mods could do to stop the alleged raiders, then maybe Pawoo shouldn't be up.
I don't believe that there was nothing more the Pawoo mods could do. I think they allowed it.