I would like to filter out all the porn posts without blocking all of NSFW posts. I like porn as much as the next guy, but every other post I see is porn. I’ve been blocking the individual communities, but that doesn’t stop anything. Is there specific keywords to use or is it just all NSFW or no NSFW?
Don’t subscribe to those communities and use the subscribed view.
I like local because it helps me find new communities I might be interested in. Just filtering by subscribed kind of closes you off to things.
I do that by periodically browsing the community list. I suppose you could toggle the NSFW filter manually when switching from one to the other.
I don’t know why I didn’t think of that. That’s a good idea
Fwiw, lemmyverse.net is a way better community browser than the one built into a Lemmy instance, which often is missing tons of communities.
My experience is that browsing lemmyverse, I find WAY more interesting stuff than what pops up on the all/local feeds, which is generally dominated by “frontpage” style mass-appeal communities that are very general and memey. All the communities I enjoy the most are too small to make the scroll and were find explicitly by searching. I now enjoy my subscribed feed much more than all/local.
Lemmy REALLY needs a distinction between porn nsfw and non-porn nsfw.
The whole use of “NSFW” has always bugged me. The common use cases are broad, and it implies weird things by specifying work.
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xxx&nsfwtags? Orxsfwinstead ofxxx? And maybe even ansfltag for those that are more than just not safe for work.Maybe we could mature and move past these “not safe for” things and just use clear labels.
They do, but some of us heathens will just post anything anywhere
I ended up blocking all NSFW stuff because I very rarely had anything that was non-porn related on my feed such as nsfw news, nsfw memes, etc.
At least this way I can still discover new communities without porn being in every other post.
For myself it only took about an hour of scrolling to block all the porn communities as they popped up. In the last couple days a couple new communities have cropped up that I didn’t have blocked yet, but I have my client set to blur nsfw images until I click on them, so I’m able to block those new communities without ever seeing the content.
There isn’t a good way to do this right now, as far as I know. From what I’ve heard, the devs hope to add support for blocking entire instances in the future, at which point we’d be able to just block lemmy.nsfw or wherever the majority of the porn is coming from. Until then, you just have to block it community-by-community.
the devs hope to add support for blocking entire instances in the future
Isn’t that defederation?
No. What they are referring to is a seperation in media consumption, not the blocking of specific media.
I know your concern but my question is ultimately about personal preference over actual standard or expectation. If I were to say that porn itself on lemmy should be it’s own, privately accessible entity would be defederation (even though that is not a word in the lexicon. Closest would be anti-federalist). Plus, me personally, I’m getting the impressions that you are trying to say that it should be expected to look at porn which is not the case. I can personally choose to avoid it if I want to. I’m not asking to shut it down
We need user settings to have separate blocklists/filters for the front page vs general browsing. I have been wanting to submit a feature request for this.
You’ll find that your NSFW troubles can be basically made moot by blocking two instances catering to the critically horny. Although lemmy doesn’t nativity allow us to block porn explicitly, there’s a workaround.
On the phone, I use connect to block the two problem instances. In the web browser, I use this user script to block them: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/469297-block-lemmy-instances/code
Does not seem to work with old.lemmy, dang.
There is also a solution for mobile on iOS. You can filter out instances on Memmy.
Of course this has no effect on browsing on the site though.
Don’t know if any Android apps have this function.
