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.

  • Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zoneMEnglish
    49·
    1 year ago

    I haven’t seen any reports coming through for content from that instance, which makes it hard to choose to defederate, because I haven’t seen any examples of the problems you describe to get a sense of how the admins are responding.

    Can I ask that for now, you aggressively report anything that crosses your feed? That will let me get a sense of how the admins from that instance are addressing the issue.

    And hopefully, the ability for users to block whole instances isn’t too far away!

    • Melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
      13·
      1 year ago

      Part of what I’m concerned about is the lack of ability to know the age or consent of anyone on there due to the lack of verification. At least /r/gonewild could verify people somewhat, nothing is stopping people from posting CSEM on LemmyNSFW and we’d probably never know, at least until the FBI or other relevant agency got involved. It’s just spooky, especially when they have seemingly non-consenty stuff on their front page, at least when I went to check what their deal was.

      I don’t think I’m willing to report anything because I’m not willing to turn off my NSFW filter again while we’re federated. If anything slips through without being tagged NSFW I’ll report it though. I haven’t been too good about reporting in the past.

    • smoldragon@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

      They have at least one community named after a trans slur which is not great. Unfortunately I was on mlem when I saw it so I couldn’t report it.

    • slicedcheesegremlin@kbin.social
      5·
      1 year ago

      Although I have seen some trans slurs and “rape” content from there, it’s mostly just been fetish stuff and nothing real or genuinely harmful. Also, you can already hide nsfw content in the settings, although lemmynsfw has had an issue with actually getting people to tag it as such.