Edit: just to be clear, I’m only talking about lemmy.blahaj.zone here. If you’re coming from Kbin or some other instance, this won’t affect you.
I have nothing against porn in general, but LemmyNSFW is a firehose of NSFW content, some of it offensive or toxic, and the admins seem to be shaky on whether they’re prepared for the content. It’s started showing up in my /all/ feed now, and I’m worried.
Essentially the entirety of Lemmy’s porn is getting uploaded to one instance, and I am not at all confident in their ability to moderate it. The idea of a massive instance like that that’s still so young and untested and still trying to figure out whether they are going to allow underage content or not being allowed on my feed makes me really uncomfortable. I could just disable NSFW, but not all NSFW is porn and not all of it comes from that instance.
In addition to the lack of moderation, things I’ve seen that seem to be allowed include: misogyny, slurs for trans people, objectification, straight up rape…
They don’t even have any system of verification for anyone posting on there so they could be spreading CSEM or revenge porn into people’s caches unknowingly. There’s a potential legal risk here too.
Defederating seems more than reasonable. LemmyNSFW is just way too lax on their policies. If people here want to look at porn, they can always make an alt account over there.
Removed by mod
Unfortunately you cannot block an entire instance as a user.
This is a requested feature that I am sure the devs will address eventually. Although based on their recent feedback they are focusing on stability and optimization to handle the spike in people at the moment. What I personally have done is set my feed to “subscribed” only. This allows you much more control of which communities you see. However I do see how individually blocking instances would be nice in the future.
Speaking of which the IOS app in TestFlight called Memmy is going to add this feature to their app in the next update.
On Mastodon there are levels of moderation for other instances and admins can set certain instances in such a way, that posts from that domain only appear to users who subscribe to said domain. On Kbin the user can block entire domain. I’m not suggesting you should ditch lemmy (it has post filtering based on post language which I miss on Kbin), but rather - maybe some sort of similar functionality should be proposed as feature request on lemmy repo. Unfortunately, that won’t resolve the problem fast. Moderating tools are still a bit lacking, as often mentioned on the topic of beehaw defederating from many instances.
How do you block a community?
I think this could be a next thing to look into for the developers - blocking an instance on a user level. So rather than an instance defederating from an instance, the instance mods could post a “suggested for blocking” instances. What do you think?
Maybe they are confused by blocking a “magazine?” I can’t find any way to block an instance (which I would think is a community).
If you want to block entire domain in kbin, that’s possible, but I don’t know easy way to navigate to the domain page. If you enter the adress manually you can do it. So for example if you wanted to block lemmynsfw.com, you would navigate to page https://kbin.social/d/lemmynsfw.com and block it with the button in the sidebar of the domain page. Be warned though - if you visit this page you might see the content you wanted to block, so treat this link as NSFW. Also, from what I’ve seen - microblog posts from blocked domain may still appear, but if you don’t use microblog view this should be enough to avoid seeing posts from blocked domain
Can you go to kbin.social/d/lemmynsfw.com and block it from there? When I do that it shows up in my blocked domains
communities in lemmy are magazines on kbin. On the sidebar (default to the right) you can find magazine info and buttons to subscribe to it or block it. The original post came from lemmy, so there might be confusion as to the naming of the things.
If you wanted to block entire domain in kbin, that’s possible too, but I don’t know easy way to navigate to the domain page. If you enter the adress manually you can do it. So for example if you wanted to block lemmynsfw.com, you would navigate to page https://kbin.social/d/lemmynsfw.com and block it with the button in the sidebar. Be warned though - if you visit the page you might see the content you wanted to block, so it’s probably NSFW. Also, from what I’ve seen - microblog posts from blocked domain still may appear, but if you don’t use microblog view this should be enough