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MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

Engagement is any interaction, including viewing, from a user.

I don’t maximize for that. The only “engagement” I actively look for is the positive kind. You think I wouldn’t start marking things nsfw if it got a ton downvotes when I didn’t?

Currently, the reality is the other way around. Pointlessly tagged posts receive significantly less votes, but people looking for porn don’t vote, and people browsing normally, are less likely to check a post tagged nsfw.

Why is Thighdeology marked nsfw on reddit, yet still a hugely popular subreddit, but somehow that would be a deathknell for it to be the same on lemmy?

Critical mass. Tons of things are a death-knell to fediverse activity simply because it is tiny. Reddit can support a shitload of duplicate communities any one of which outweighs the single equivalent fediverse community by orders of magnitude.

Your list includes none of the many AI-specific anime art communities that are out there, I think you need to be a bit more proactive in your browsing.

I actively refuse to engage with AI content. There are active communities besides !share_anime_art@lemmy.dbzer0.com?

Asking people to specify every word they don’t want to be exposed to is absurd, when there’s already one single and very easy to append word - NSFW - that you are ardently rejecting on the basis that it would damage your interactions.

Finding a common word used in content you don’t like is no harder that blocking. The feature becoming generally available would allow us to implement arbitrary tags. Why does this suggestion offend you? It’s a genuine win-win solution.

if you don’t want sexualized (but arguably non-explicit) images of anime girls in your feed, you’d have to go through and view a bunch of them before you can block it. Surely you can see how that’s… pretty ridiculous? Potentially very demeaning?

That’s true for any category of content. Are you saying anime girls are somehow inherently bad or damaging to users, as compared to for example sports content?

I blocked music content from my feed this way. Should I feel demeaned for having been made to see things other people enjoy, but I don’t care for?

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