There’s a constant influx of new communities with softcore sexualized characters, especially anime girls, that I could do without.
I don’t mind anime and manga in general, so I would rather not block the instances that specialize in it, but blocking softcore communities one by one seems be a never ending task.
I also think it may be off-putting for new members.
No you’re an adult and so are your coworkers.
You can block anytning you want to not see
Perhaps it would help if you were to… say… document cases of this. Perhaps a list and links to as many of these communities as you can point to. You know, to research and begin assessing… the scale of the problem… and maybe how to resolve it.
I block all anime and meme communities and never run into animated giant tits any more.
nsfwish
Yeah, I always think that more than a NSFW binary there should be three or maybe 4 options.
- Totally safe for work/public
- Suggestive
- Actively sexualised nudity
- Hardcore and/or very kinky
- Violence and gore
Maybe other folks would do it a bit differently, which is probably why we’re stuck on the binary.
Categorise them as Nearly Safe For Work
Some sites categorize SFW but skimpy stuff as “Suggestive” so they can be selectively filtered.
We need Mastodon style tools so we can mute and block users and communities. Muting keywords and hashtags as well. I rarely see anything on Mastodon that I don’t want to.
These are already a thing actually. I have many communities blocked because I simply don’t have any interest in them. I also have the entire instance of lemmynsfw blocked too.
I have many communities blocked because I simply don’t have any interest in them.
Lol. Yeah. I’m glad that perhaps every local sports team has a dedicated feed, but I still block them so I can browse all for interesting stuff more easily.
Local sports is most of my blocked communities lol
I switch to the Voyager app exactly to block communities and keywords. But I also need to block whole instances to be honest. Namely instances from countries I don’t speak the language.
I agree, it annoys me too.
I’ve blocked few instances themselves, ani.social for example m
I’ve blocked so so many. It can be tiring
Lobby the mods of those communities to have and enforce rules defining what must be tagged NSFW.
Thanks for linking to this, it could indeed be a solution.
The RFC: https://github.com/Neshura87/rfcs/blob/main/0004-post-tags.md
TL;DR: a tag/flag system for posts is described in this RFC and being actively developed with a part 1 already merged and a part 2 in review. Tagging would only be possible for privileged users such as mods and admins so they can keep a sensical classification. So from there, we would need softcore communities’ mods to agree to use a specific tag that we could filter out. That’s still a lot of if, but it’s a good step, with many other use cases.
Valid
Don’t subscribe to them?
They appear in the all feed without subscribing. Only using the subscribed feed would mean I am missing on new communities that may interest me.
I’m in the same position as you. I haven’t found a good solution. I just keep blocking each individual community when I come across it in the feed.
It’s also worth blocking some of the more prolific users. Since they’re often bots or seriously dedicated to spreading anime.
If you’re browsing all, obviously you’re going to see content you’re not interested in. That’s not the fault of the people who post the content.
There is already nsfw flag to avoid this kind of thing, so it’s not a new concept on Lemmy. Except this content is usually not considered nsfw enough.
So you think it should be a binary decision? Either see only things you’ve actively curated or put up with anime tits.
No one is suggesting it is anyone’s fault for posting stuff, just that if there was a tag system people could choose.
You seem defensive, is everything ok?
The communities are the tag system.
I’m just tired of people complaining about there being content on Lemmy they don’t find interesting.
Stop looking through all, subscription exists for a reason.
While I agree with your broad point and have made the same point myself – it is just wildly impractical for people to try getting the whole network to blacklist everything globally to fit their exact set of tastes – I will grant that there’s probably room for user-curated whitelists or something. I understand that Bluesky does something like this. That way, instead of having to discover each individual community, you can subscribe to someone’s list of recommended communities and have them “auto added” to your subscriptions or something like that.
How do I discover new communities without using all?
By looking at the communities listing
Do so NOT IN PUBLIC? As in… Browse all when you are in a place where it doesn’t matter who can peak at your phone and just keep SFW comms on your subscriptions to browse otherwise.
Because we know most people are too lazy to properly tag them as NSFW or don’t think of them as such, but at the end of the day, if you are browsing all in public or where you shouldn’t, then you are the one making problems for yourself, either by random sexy content, something that could trigger a phobia or random military footage that could be too violent for someone peaking over (still their fault for being rude and peaking over).
These guys run a bot that indexes all of the Threadiverse.
https://lemmyverse.net/communities
It’s not made obvious to new users, but it’s generally a considerably-better option than simply looking at anything local to your Lemmy instance (including All) if you’re trying to find new stuff for a number of reasons, most-importantly the fact that your home instance will only ever see posts from a community on a remote instance if at least one other user on your home instance has subscribed to that community.
Just grab the community there (!communityname@instancename, which it will copy if you click on the community name) and search for it on your home instance. Your home instance will contact the remote instance and learn about the community if it’s never heard of it before. At that point, you can subscribe to the remote community, and if you’re the first user on your home instance, it will start getting posts for that community.
This is less-critical on large instances, like lemmy.world, because you’ve got better odds that someone else with the same home instance has subscribed to a given community, but even there, if if you use All to find new communities, there are going to be remote communities that you just won’t ever see. The only way to get a complete list is to do what the lemmyverse.net guys do, to index all instances on the whole Threadiverse.
Plus, this is searchable, sortable, you get a single entry per community so you don’t have to crawl through all the — potentially offensive to you — posts to find a community, you can see communities that are rarely active without waiting for someone to post, etc.
I mean fair enough up to a point but the thread side of the Fediverse simply doesn’t have the content for subscribes communities to be enough. I mean unless your subbed communities focus on politics, tech and star trek I guess.
