Comment on NSFW on Lemmy
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks agoI’m good with nipples.
I have nipples in my phone wallpaper rotation. But the relevant pieces fall into the artistic rather than pornographic category.
NSFW is a insanely fuzzy concept that allows you to draw the line essentially anywhere. It’s why I’m on an instance that blocks porn, rather than just using an account with nsfw tagges content disabled. Because that way I can keep nsfw enabled, and not miss less stuff I want to see because some people will mark stuff I would never in my wildest dream think is nsfw.
My instance manually blocks instances and communities that are pornographic. Because that’s literally the only way this can work.
There will always be someone who thinks any given piece of content should/shouldn’t be considered nsfw.
It’s a gradient that allows you slightly lean in onendirection or the other, so stop acting like it should “at least” do anything. It will never draw a clear line.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
So… nothing being presented here would effect you at all, then? If you don’t have NSFW content blocked, and your instance manually reviews blocked instances, marking softcore stuff as NSFW wouldn’t change how you interact with that content (unless your instance is overly zealous in blocking). So what’s the problem here?
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
I run a ton of these communities.
And I care about the fediverse as a whole.
Marking content nsfw without reason will immediately kneecap community and content discovery.
I do still use the feature. And I calibrate the line of what is and what is not, based on votes, comments and reports.
One, single, upset person, is not reason enough cut off dozens or hundreds of people from encountering content they might like.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Okay sure, but why are we considering the people who don’t want to see that content as worth less than the people who do? For that matter, why is engagement more important to you than curating an appreciative audience? People are railing against people that downvote in /all as well, but what’s the alternative to express that they don’t want to see that content - blocking entire instances is an overly broad approach except in some specific cases (lemmy.nsfw for example) and blocking community by community is exhausting, given how many new highly specific “anime moe tiddy thigh-gap colored hair” communities crop up daily. Asking them to tag them NSFW, or even just bringing out a different tag that isn’t blocked by default (which god, we really need even if just for spoilers) is a perfectly valid request.
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Why are people who want to see the content worth less than the ones who don’t? Anyone can block content. No-one is likely to find content they don’t even know is there.
Explain the difference between engagement and an appreciative audience.
I keep seeing this argument. What new communities? I run these! I haven’t made a new one in over a year, and I’ve only recently had to add half a dozen new entries to my list.
Several clients offer word filtering. Asking for the feature in lemmy itself is fine, and something I fully support.