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xapr@lemmy.sdf.org 4 weeks agoBut also think that the rule of Lemmy is that all algorithms end at porn.
Huh? I don’t see any porn, even when sorting by hot. Ah, that’s because there’s a checkbox in your settings to let you choose whether to see NSFW posts or not. I guess it works really well.
BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 4 weeks ago
Turning it on doesn’t work well either. I have enabled NSFW and never see any of it.
xapr@lemmy.sdf.org 4 weeks ago
Weird. Then either our instances are secretly blocking it, not through defederation, or there’s some other mysterious technical reason for it.
Nollij@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
Many (most?) instances do block porn. Aside from liability concerns, porn tends to be high bandwidth, meaning high costs to operate. As such, there are a handful of VERY NSFW instances that aren’t well-federated.
Of course, it depends on how you define porn. I see a ton of suggestive (but not outright pornographic) anime when I browse All/New, but very little of actual naked humans.
xapr@lemmy.sdf.org 4 weeks ago
I totally understand why they would do it. I don’t understand why or how they block the NSFW instances without them appearing in the list of blocked instances.
ockenheimer@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
Not secretly, there is literally a list of blogged instances. There you’ll find nazis or titties Maybe both :)
(I don’t have the link at hand, but giyf)
xapr@lemmy.sdf.org 4 weeks ago
lemmynsfw appears to be blocked secretly on lemm.ee. It’s not listed under blocked instances there, but I can’t see any posts from lemmynsfw there either. There must be some other mechanism that’s available besides blocking instances in the open.