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.

  • MeowdyPardner@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Making sure the show nsfw option works properly when disabled as well as adding options to mark entire communities or instances nsfw both by the owners and by other instance admins should go a long way towards mitigating this imo. As well as several bugs where properly marked posts accidentally don’t get blurred because the blue gets applied to the community icon instead of the thumbnail, or the recommended posts box not blurring posts, those need to be fixed.

    Beyond that, if limiting instances can be implemented so that no content gets shown except to those who specifically subscribed to communities from that instance, I feel like defederation may not be needed at that point unless the content is illegal or staying federated is resulting in excessive spam and trolling interactions (which afaik wouldn’t be blocked by limiting alone)