I got a report on one of my posts, It was for the mods of lemmy.ml letting them know that porn was popping up on .ml. I went and checked lemmy.ml's instances and we are now in the blocked list. I know they had a number of large communities so this is just a heads up to everyone who may have been subbed to any.
The same happened with feddit.de way in the beginning.
On the flip side I hope this helps the lemmy devs see why it would be useful to have better content filtering options for users and instance admins. Blocking us outright hurts federation as a whole. I'll reach out to them in a few days.
Honestly probably not that surprising considering they seem to be very anti-porn and I think are the only major instance to actually block you from looking at NSFW content (which makes me wonder how porn got there in the first place, did someone forget to tag something?).
For better or worse, I'm kind of glad that lemmy.world emerged as the big superinstance rather than lemmy.ml, they seem to be a bit more generalist.
I messaged Dessalines and proposed a feature to have them block our communities while we could keep getting their content and participating in their communities.
This is what happens when there's still no personal server blocklist. If this is going to keep happening, maybe there needs to be a greater concerted effort on keeping porn instances+communities separate from instances that are used for user accounts and SFW content. Lemmy's strength is still in federation, but when all the general communities are on ~3 servers, stuff like this is still very rough in practice.
Yea, the ability for individual users to block instances as a whole is really needed to stop this from becoming a thing that just happens frequently. Strength is definitely still in federation and people are going to get annoyed with having to have multiple accounts because their instances keep defederating from each other.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Lemmy is a fantastic Reddit clone, and federation is great for persistence, but it completely lacks nuance in how content is delivered. Defederation is only going to further fragment the platform. No one is going to be totally happy with it until the onus is primarily on the individual, rather than the community or instance.
As a user, I want choice. Give me settings. Give me more control. Then if I see something I don't like, or something I'd rather change, that's on me. That sounds much better than hoping and waiting for a level-headed admin to figure it out for me, or making yet another account when they get it wrong.
We'll never get anywhere if all the admins are afraid of getting on everyone else's "bad side" for content they can barely control themselves.
I seriously don't get it haha. Like you're browsing all, you're gonna see something you don't like. Block it and move on. No one in that community cares that you don't like it so why comment. That is the second person I've had this "discussion" with here recently.
I know I shouldn't engage, but you are right. Not everyone wants to see furry porn on their all feed. And as a moderator of a porn community I'd like to have the ability to say "you know what, I'd rather posts be unlisted and not appear in the all feed". Maybe even if I were running my own instance I could block some of the more riskier communities.
But none of these tools exist yet, unlisted posts and per-user instance wide blocklists would be really nice features. If you don't like this sort of content, you could just mute yiffit.net and go on with your life.
There are two established major porn lemmy instances, both of which are blocked by lemmy.ml. If they saw this as a problem IMO they should implement instance blocking as a priority. But they haven't, and decided that blocking access to people is the better option. The situation is getting super frustrating at this point.
Engaging is fine. They are right about a lot of people not wanting to see furry porn on All. its the hostility of how they started that irked me. I would have been more than happy to have a conversation with them about it.
Also as someone who moderates a few communities here as well I agree with a lot of what you said.
You're fine to engage, even if I responded negatively, I'm just an asshole on the Internet like everyone else, besides; everything you said was right on the money.
Hey bud, this was a post to let people on this instance know about it. Not a complaint or anything to anyone else. You don't need to be here and no one cares. Just block the communities and move on.
I agree, many users use "All" because Lemmy can be a bit slow and we're looking for more new communities to subscribe to. However, I have NSFW blurred on Sync for Lemmy.