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.
There are some things that are NSFW that aren’t CP that people may be interested in. I’m not into porn myself but there is some art or language that is considered NSFW, videos of say 911 are NSFW but people shouldn’t have to be totally cut off from what’s happening in the world because an image or video may be NSFW. Maybe we can have a PORN label, and a separate label for porn that might be illegal and immoral, and one for non sex related NSFW that can be filtered somehow?
I don’t want to see CP. I have no problem filtering out sex related communities but people shouldn’t have to look at CP to not see it and not have to block all NSFW content. Its fine to block it all for now, sure, but what’s the plan?
Also, there should be a way to tag an entire sublemmy or server as NSFW without having ti ban or defederate it.
There is, it just confusingly isn’t always inherited by the posts themselves. Plus, like people said NSFW =/= porn.
The real solution here would be being able to block instances as a user, which it sounds like Kbin might have as a feature? I’m probably gonna switch over to Kbin once the Blåhaj one is up.
I agree, there should be a tag for excluding porn from /all
Illegal content should be removed by moderators such as it was on reddit, it’s just that lemmy is growing too fast atm