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It’s… literally “Not Safe For Work”. There’s no formal definition, let alone one beyond “not safe to have at work”. It was a usenet appelation applied to content you don’t want your boss seeing you browsing, it’s never evern been explicitly about porn? It’s not exactly hardline censorship to want tagging guidlines to be followed. At the moment, /all is the best way to find new communities to subscribe to. It’s not unreasonable to ask people not to complain about the content they find there, but since this is the one single content filter common to lemmy, it’s also not unreasonable to ask people to use it?

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remon@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Despite what the letters literally stand for or where it’s from, it doesn’t actually mean that (anymore). If it did for most people almost any media would be “NSFW”. Most people would get in trouble for watching a movie or playing video games at work, regardless of content. That’s obviously a useless definition.

Since it was popularized in reddit and other social media the tag defacto means porn/gore. That’s how the vast majority of people uses it and that’s how I think it should be used.

And of course people can complain. But well, sometimes the complain might just fall on deaf ears. And in the case if demanding bikini pictures be tagged as NSFW, I think rightfully so.

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- Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  The situations in which you’re watching any alternative media in a workplace setting are potentially fraught with reprimand, though. “You’re there on work time being on your phone is literally theft” and all that hyperbolic corpo BS. But during times you can be on your phone, it’s still broadly less acceptable to be watching “haurhi jiggles up and down [nightcore] [bigtits]” videos than it would be watching generic videogame content.
  
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  - remon@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    
    But it’s never stopped meaning that, though? It’s still extremely commonly used to tag that sort of content, and I don’t know why you’re starting to insist that words don’t mean the things they say.
    
    The literal meaning of the phrase is useless, since what is safe at a workplace varies drastically with the workplace. It’s also relevant in a lot of other settings that aren’t work, like browsing your phone on public transport. It’s also very common for phrases to have a different meaning from the literal meaning of the individual words. I’d say that’s even the case for most phrases. When you say it’s raining cats and dogs there aren’t actually cats and dogs falling from the sky. In this case the actual “work” aspect isn’t relevant.
    
    What the tag does signify is that the following content might be disturbing or inappropriate in certain situations so you can be aware before opening it. And bikini pictures don’t warrant that warning, even if some workplaces have a policy against it.
    
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