Comment on feddit.online will live on as a PieFed instance
cacheson@piefed.social 1 month agoIt's not that I want the threadiverse to deliver porn to me. I'm capable of finding that myself. It's that I like sex-positive culture and think it's a good thing for humanity overall.
As I noted, my complaint isn't about any specific instance admin. Individually, no one should be required to host or cache anything that they don't want to. However, the overall trend of blocking NSFW communities is still concerning, and we should advocate for admins to not do that where feasible.
The design decision to hide NSFW communities from logged-out users also plays a part here. Community discovery is bad enough as it is, and this makes it even worse. Last I checked, lemmynsfw was having to maintain their own patch to fix it, and keep maintaining it as new lemmy versions are released. Kbin and PieFed also copied this decision, and I assume Mbin inherited it.
rglullis@communick.news 1 month ago
If this is so important to you, you are still very much free to start your own instance and see how far it goes.
cacheson@piefed.social 1 month ago
I've considered it, but my skillset isn't really suited to it as a solo project. I can write code, and I have a reasonable understanding of the human factors side of things, but my IT skills are lacking. I'd be happy to join a team of like-minded people undertaking such a project, though.
rglullis@communick.news 1 month ago
The problem is not code. The problem is that no one wants to take this responsibility. Every one wants to talk about supportive they are on sex positivity until some men in uniform knocks on their doors because they are running a website that is available.
Also, I don’t even want to get in the discussion of “sex positivity” being associated with “easily available porn”. Like you said, porn is easy to find and I really doubt that the someone who is savvy enough to use Lemmy would have trouble to know where it is.
cacheson@piefed.social 1 month ago
Are you speaking from first-hand experience, or is this conjecture? At least in the US, complying with the law isn't that difficult.
That's an odd way to avoid discussing it. Do you think the availability of porn (or prohibition thereof) within an online space has no effect on what kind of culture develops there?