My Lemmy experience so far

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Y'all some perverts

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i havent seen a single porn so far on lemmy. i think my instance blocks it.

My lemmy is full of cats. So many cats

mine is just full of memes which I can't find any other active communities tbh

Where can I find these cats... I am missing my daily feline pics to brighten my day. 🥺

And here I am thinking I haven't seen nearly enough porn on lemmy.

You have "block all NSFW content" enabled in your account, the problem is that the setting block any content NSFW and lots of them aren't porn at all, just sensitive content. This is why many are asking for a proper PORN tag to block exclusively that. Until then the best we can do either to block all or block one community at the time.

You’re lucky. I’ve had to block so many yiff communities. I don’t mind the odd ass, boob, or even dick in my feed, but come on…

Moi sopulitoveri!

Yes. It does, mostly. It's kinda nice.

I guess I'm doing it wrong then, all I see are days old posts about how this place isn't reddit and how people are délétion their reddit posts, and how life without reddit is si much more betterer. REDDIT! Where are the tits?

Mine is full of memes

I had to cut down on meme-communities because the traffic is just so much higher than anywhere else.

You can change the settings of your account to not show NSFW and porn is filtered out 🙂

This is why we need a different tag for porn and nsfw.

Or block the lemmynsfw instance in your main account, that works too.

How do you block a whole instance? I was under the impression this was a feature that's still missing as of right now.

Some apps have implemented it, I've heard Connect on Android is one of them.

Ohh, that makes sense, thanks for the tip. I'm on Memmy for iOS which doesn't seem to have it, but I'll check out other apps, would be nice to have one with this feature.

Absolutely. If you find one for iOS that supports post it here, I'm sure people would appreciate it.

As of today, Voyager (fka wefwef) has controls for blocking entire instances and also to not blur NSFW images on specified accounts.

Nice, thanks for the tip! I do also have wefwef, I'll check out the new version!

Instances can block other instances but not users from what I can tell. When I see something I be don't want to regularly see I go to that community and block it, like all of the popular porn communities that often float to the top.

Right, this is what I've been doing so far, it's just getting a bit annoying to keep blocking communities left and right lol. Really looking forward to the block instance feature.

Plus, navigating your blocked communities becomes slightly disturbing

You are right, you need to block individual communities from your non NSFW account. There are not many that pop up in the all feed, and they can be blocked quite fast.

I've done that and still seen porn. I'm blocking it now to stop it completely.

I have seen so much more porn on a single night of reddit than I have the entire time I've been on lemmy. I feel this is just a weird psyop to scare people away from the "degenerate leftist place!"

very based. the porn in the entire fediverse is straight and/or vanilla and any google search will give you better content.

i wish i could feel the same way op has posted

Maybe OP is very conservative and feels it's porn to see a woman's ankles? Imagine what those people must think looking at any form of media 🤣🤣🤣

TFW you will never discover pictures of naked ladies on the internet for the first time again 😔

pics of naked ladies are the exact definition of straight and vanilla lol

After frequenting 4chan for a few years, I welcome the vanilla stuff honestly 🤣🤣😂😂😅😅😅😅

i don't doubt it and now i'm not sure if i should consider myself lucky that 4chan is completely ignorant of the stuff i like. lol

The amount of ai gen, hentai, furry, and trans porn I see when viewing All is off the charts. I'm constantly blocking those communities. It seems like I'm blocking the same ones over and over but it's all just coming from other instances.

it never ceases to blow my mind that all that stuff is so plentiful but gay porn w/o dick pics or solo vids or tight angles or dick focus is virtually non-existent; i REALLY wish reddit wasn't the only source for this content.

Really? I've been blocking porn communities constantly since my app had the option a few days ago.

I've blocked at least 7 in just the last 12 hours.

I'm surprised you haven't came across all the ai generated porn subs while browsing /all/

I just checked my filters and I've blocked 50 porn communities within the last 5 days.

Bro, what app are you using? I tried jebora and now using connect and I still can't seem to find any porn

Do you have NSFW posts hidden as default? That can hide every porn post.

I use the voyager( WefWef) app and it's pretty great.

Lol I actually just blocked another 10 porn subs since I last commented here. Found so many by just scrolling on /all/

Interesting - I just checked my settings in connect - I have nsfw set to blur, and I joined lemmy.world instance, and I still don't see any porn... I mean I'm not mad about it, I just wonder how we can have such a different experience. It's interesting 🤔

Do you think it is because of your instance? I haven't seen any porn at all and I am thankful for that. I am guessing no one in world ever went to a porn community or it is because I usually look in all + active or local + active.

Pretty sure both blahaj and your server on .world allows porn & that one main porn server. I'll try finding my password for my .world account, I'll check out to see if there is any difference.

Please do it will be interesting if there are, but even more interesting if there isn't any. Because then I don't know why I don't see any. I actually thought everything was on dedicated porn instance or blocked but I couldn't see any instances that screamed I am a porn instance in the block list. I checked lemmy.worlds block list here https://federation-checker.vercel.app/

I saw I was still signed in on the liftoff app on my lemmy.world account.

I scrolled through the /all/ feed and did not see a single nsfw post lol. I even tried scrolling through /new/ and still saw nothing.

I didn't even see any post that wasn't porn but marked nsfw. Every post was safe for work. My profile says nsfw is allowed.

I don't know why the porn is hidden for people lol. It's really weird this is an issue. I at least now understand why people were thinking there was no porn at all here 😆

One more final update because the issue is funny to me lol.

I added my .world account to the voyager app and I began to see porn posts. I don't know why they are hidden from view in the other apps.

Situation is weird lol.

Haha this is weird because I also use voyager and haven't seen any. Can you have multiple instances in one feed? I didn't see if it was possible. But now you know how you can "hide" all of the NSFW posts 😂

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Weird. I have the exact opposite experience. Not for lack of trying mind you; it's the last thing that makes me open reddit.

I can't understand how people are getting this experience. Are they browsing Local @ xxxlemmynsfw.porn or what?

Sure its a pic or two but not everywhere by a long stretch

If you browse all and hot, in the evenings, you will get a lot of it.

When I browse hot I get posts from months ago with two upvotes and one comment. It's more of an ice cold sort for me.

There's a shit ton of porn subs that pop up throughout the days. Ive blocked 50 so far in under a week. That's all just from them popping up on /all/ + top 6 hours and me blocking as I see on my feed.

I'm actually confused at all the people who haven't seen the porn lmao. There is always at least one post at the top of my feed when I get on.

Am I at the wrong Lemmy?

I know right? I’ve barely come across any porn

Not sure if it's a Liftoff thing but even with a Lemmynsfw account on the Lemmynsfw instance I can't see any nfsw posts. Need to use the PC for that.

For me it’s been prettty consistently non existent across Voyager, desktop and the other app.

I'll be honest, you have to go out looking for porn to find it on Lemmy.

I personally keep seeing it in All and it's annoying. I don't want to turn off NSFW because I want to see other non-porn NSFW content

What? No. I get a lot of random porn just browsing all

I checked on the All feed, both under New and Active. It took me several pages of browsing to find a single pornographic submission, and to be honest all you really have to do is go into settings and either disable NSFW content or block communities which post porn. Only like... two or three NSFW communities on LemmyNSFW are really hitting the All feed.

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No you don't. It was in All. Like every other top post.

All depends very much on the instance you are in. Depending on who the people in your instance subscribe to, is what is shown in all. I didnt have much porn between .ca or reddthat yesterday. It also depends on how you sort in that instance.

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Where the fuck is porn? I am searching for it but can't find it. Can someone please help

Make an account on the porn specific ones and you'll find it.

What happened to fediverse where one instance can talk to another ?

There should be an option in your user settings to, "show me NSFW content."

Also, as other commentors said, depending on what instance you've signed up on the porn could've been defederated.

Also, presuming you're on lemmy.world, there aren't that many large porn communities on this instance. You won't see much porn if you scroll through local but you'll see a lot more on all.

Lastly, if you want to go directly to the porn, one of the more larger porn instances is Lemmynsfw.com

lemmynsfw.com is the main one, and you probably get all the SFW posts from it already. The actual NSFW content is account-gated, but they don't require an email to open an account.

Account gated? I can see all the porn from that instance without having to make an account. It's the server I've blocked the most subs from.

I dunno what instance you're on, but I have allowed NSFW on lemmy.world and rarely have I seen porn. Thankfully a lot of it is over at lemmynsfw.com instead so I can see stuff labeled NSFW here without being flooded with porn. Unless .world defederated from lemmysnfw at some point. I haven't paid attention to much meta news and who has defederated from who.

They're from lemmy.world. It'll tell you if you go to their profile.

Reminds me of the old Reddit times when you had some random nudes here and there while browsing through the “all“ sub / timeline.

I don’t think that’s a problem and should not happen when you tailor your subscribed communities accordingly or choose to blur / filter NSFW.

where? I joined about a month ago with "Show NSFW content" checked and I haven't run into a single porn post unless I actively look for it

Yea, perverts! Nobody likes porn on the internet! Weirdos.

I don't think the majority of normal adults have seen a single porn, or even heard of sex.

Those are bizarre words that, as an adult human, I barely recognize and could hardly pronounce.

Yeah what sick people would sit half naked in that office chair looking at the screen, one hand on the mouse, listening intensively that no one in the house is nearby, searching for the filth that would make the moment complete. Sick sick people, tell me where to find it

Weirdly enough, I've seen basically no porn at all. Guess Kbin is pretty good at filtering it out

Might have something to do with the way kbin ranks posts. Top posts are mostly ranked according to boosts rather than upvotes (favourites). I'd guess people are less likely to boost porn since a boost theoretically 'retweets' the post. Actually I'm also not sure if you can boost from Lemmy?

I get porn when browsing new or hot on all.

Mostly gay and furry porn, but it's still porn. Block almost all of it as that's not why I'm here.

The main NSFW instance has the NSFW content gated behind accounts. You can see all the SFW content from anywhere, but you need to be logged in there to see the porn.

As far as I can tell there isn't actually that much? The only instance that really hosts it front and center is lemmyNSFW, and thats pretty small compared to most other spots

Maybe I haven't been hanging around Lemmy that long, but I haven't seen any NSFW stuff yet. Might be tempting fate, and considering I am looking at Lemmy at work.

Porn is always the trailblazer. Without the demand for porn we wouldn't have had VHS (and hence the whole concept of video on demand in your home), or instant credit card payment gateways.

I guess what I'm trying to say is: an unhealthy amount of porn = a healthy community.

That’s not really true though. We got home video because it allowed us to watch films at home. There’s an argument that VHS won over Betamax because Sony didn’t allow porn titles on Betamax. Even if that’s true, it was only an advantage for VHS because there was no other easy way to get that content.

Now there is no problem with accessing porn on the internet. In fact the differentiator for many service providers is how to successfully protect households and schools from porn. If Lemmy becomes known as “the porn network”, little Johnny is going to find that loophole closed in short order.

I saw a few nasty pics of a woman defaecating that were just slipped into random trending posts a couple of days ago, but it seems to have calmed down now. No idea how that kind of thing is going to be prevented in the future, but hopefully there will be something.

One thing that annoyed me a bit was that Lemmy Connect was not blurring the images, even though they had been heavily downvoted and I had blur NSFW enabled. I guess it only blurs things tagged, not things that have been downvoted, and it might be worth adding the option to blur images on -n downvotes as an option to enable users to crowd source censor images.

I have nsfw and I haven't seen any. Is this satire? Oh I'm using WefWef fyi

yeah, also haven't seen much using connect. there was one a few days ago I think

where? lol, I haven't really seen any porn beside someone spamming a scat gif in the comments, but other than that it has been pretty family friendly.

In All. Yesterday that majority of All was NSFW.

What instance are you connected to ? I've been browsing "all" since a week before reddit died and I've seen maybe one porn post in there the whole time ? I'm viewing via lemmy.nz if it helps ?

What instance are you connected to ? I've been browsing "all" since a week before reddit died and I've seen maybe one porn post in there the whole time ? I'm viewing via lemmy.nz if it helps ?

It doesn't matter what instance you're connected to. We see the same posts.

But I am connected to .film

Well with all the performance issued lately, it matters a bit..I've seen inconsistent posts between instances. Although the fact that you can read this suggests sync is currently working

Nevertheless, I've seen almost zero porn in All, so..something is certainly different between our experiences, and many other people here are saying they're not seeing anything either.

I'm using voyager (used to be wefwef), with default sort=hot, and hide nsfw off.

Currently, of the first 150 posts in All, only number 42 is porn (from gonewild)

I literally spent my Friday night blocking Yiff communities.

That shit is like fucking hepes on here.

Pretty sure my instance also blocks porn. Can't say I mind it, really, because I can just create an account on a porn instance.

Allows me to keep NSFW posts on, but not have to worry about pulling up a pic of a gaped ass in public. Plus if I was interested in following porn communities, I'd probably create a second account anyway. And then I wouldn't even have to wade through all of the regular stuff, I could just sign up for a porn instance. Win-win.

The plausible deniability is nice. Many places can see what domain you go to, but that's the only thing they can see.

I can't say I mind it either way. I don't mind that our instance blocks porn, but I'm glad there are some instances that don't.

Seems to me that everyone with this opinion lives on Lemmy.world and peeps in other instances or on Kbin see something different, not sure why that happens

Bruh, I bet I have blocked over 100 communities. So much porn. Y'all need a bf/gf. Go out and meet someone and give your meat a rest. Lol

There is a show nsfw setting.

NSFW tags are still used for spoilers here. I’d be cutting out major parts of subs I want to see by disabling NSFW content.

I’m also having the same problems as OP. I can’t reliably browse local or all at work because some uncensored hardcore porn is fairly likely to show up

I've also seen posts marked nsfw that just had a naughty word or were mildly risqué. I don't want a completely tame lemmy experience. I just don't want a butthole to scroll across my screen when I'm standing in line at Target.

Yea it’s not difficult to remove it from your feed lol.

You can also block an instance altogether(lemmynsfw or something)

I've done this. It helped a bit. Still getting the odd community. It's not a major deal...just saying there's a lot. lol

I sort by active by default and don't see any nsfw usually. Also selecting to view "subscribed" channels may help

Just disable nsfw in your settings

There may be content that isn’t porn that may be marked nsfw for whatever reasons users may want to see that blanket disabling NSFW would hide.

Been using Lemmy for a month and I haven't seen a single porn.

You could join an instance that blacklists lemmynsfw

I don't know how the hell some of these peeps in the comments are somehow avoiding it, but I've had to block probably a dozen or more communities before I could just enjoy Lemmy normally.

Same, I ended up taking the recommendation of another user and making an account on sopuli.xyz because they’ve blocked lemmynsfw and some other porn instances. Best decision I’ve made regarding Lemmy thus far. I probably won’t be going back to my lemmy.world or beehaw accounts any time soon unless something happens to sopuli.

I've seen zero. I wonder what step you took such that your feed is full of porn.

Do you have NSFW posts hidden?

I see them daily and blocked 50 communities when the last week. I don't search for it. It's just there on /all/ every day.

I just checked my settings and apparently Show NSFW Content is already checked.

I just tested some stuff after talking to another user.

Both my blahaj & .world accounts show porn when I am on the Voyager(WefWef) app.

When I use my accounts on the liftoff app I see zero porn posts. I'm confused at what is causing the issue tbh. I have NSFW posts set to be shown on the liftoff app but there's nothing there.

I'm on a different instance that's all about porn. I think it's actually the biggest instance for porn.

So.. asking for a friend...

https://lemmynsfw.com/

Ah, yeah, I'd seen that one but it didn't have much content.

NSFW content is hidden by default, you need to view it with an account that allows NSFW content to see the porn. There is a lot, both in quantity and variety

Can someone help me understand how Lemmy works?

When I click this link I can't see very much content -- presumably because I'm not logged in and NSFW content is hidden by default.

Is there a way to get a view of the "lemmynsfw Frontpage", as my logged in lemmy.fmhy.ml identity? Specifically I want to see the lemmynsfw "local" view as if I was logged in there directly.

Bonus question; is there an easy way to do something like that on mobile, without fiddling with URLs?

You can't see the front page from another instance, also because it's not that useful. You can join communities from other instances and interact on posts.

I don't know if there's a better solution, but even on mastodon, you'll have to piss yourself off by copying and pasting community and post urls.

Thanks for the answers. That's a pretty big usability gap but I guess I have no idea what I'd do about it, so it makes sense.

Maybe just be able to see a list of another instance's communities instances, in the context of my own instance, so I could browse and go directly to a community instead of having to swap between tabs and fiddle with URLs?

Anyways thanks

  1. Correct
  2. Currently I do not believe so, the easiest way would be to make an account on nsfw, browse it, then subscribe with your other account when you find what you like
  3. Not the I know of

There isn't really that much but customizing your experience is not the same as reddit so you see it all until you block instances.

Let's conclude.

I have enabled NSFW content on lemmy.ml and lemmy.world. When I look up specific NSFW content, the results on lemmy.world are way more. Especially for NSFW instances, but also some posts itself. So for some reason, the result on lemmy.ml (and other instance) are censored and filtered. I mean, it's fine if you don't look for that content. What makes me wonder is, why there is no information about it when you join an instance.

Right now most of the NSFW content is posted to the LemmyNSFW instance.

Lemmy.ml has defederated from that instance, lemmy.world has not, that's the only "censorship" going on. This is all public information you can find by clicking on "instances" at the bottom of these instances home pages.

Ah, thank you for pointing out. Even lemmy.world has some blocked instance. I wonder why, I can't see nothing wrong with them.

EDIT: ok, some look scamy.

Two things you can do:

  1. You can change your account settings to filter out all NSFW content.

  2. Alternatively, since NSFW can include more than just porn, you can block specific NSFW communities (most of which will probably come from lemmynsfw.com) as you encounter them. While logged in, if you encounter an NSFW community in your feed, just click on it to go to its main page (ex. !naked@lemmynsfw.com, a community from my own blocklist), go to the sidebar, and click "Block Community".

I just banned all the porn and anime subs, good these enoying cunts where always spamming

Settings > uncheck "Show NSFW content" then lol

Otherwise, I hope you use tissues made from recycled paper lol

Go to settings and unclick show NSFW, I don’t see any anywhere.

Everyone registers on lemmy.world as if there were no other options. There are several porn-free instances, just use those.

I'm on lemmy.world and have yet to run into a single porn image since joining.

I suppose you didn't enable NSFW, those who complain about it are probably the ones who allowed it for non-porn NSFW content.

Lemmy.world blocks lemmynsfw.com

Lemmy.world does federate with lemmynsfw and pornlemmy.

Why you are able to reply to a deleted comment is a mystery to me

Yeah it's deleted because I ended up not being sure and double checking

Sorry, I don't know why your comment is not showing as deleted.

I have it enabled. There's plenty of others in this thread, who also state they have it enabled and are in the same boat.

I know there's no algorithm in the background, but it's odd how different the experiences are.

Yes, it’s interesting, I can't really understand that either.

I don't see much porn, but my instance is currently so small that my subscription and all feeds aren't really that different yet.

I'm using Connect for Lemmy, and under "All" it's everywhere. If you can't find it, you aren't looking. Would like an easier way to filter it all out rather than blocking individual communities

There's an option to block entire instances in Connect; they'd still show up in your browser, but it's good enough if you primarily browse on mobile

Lemmy is just either memes or porn at this point honestly, even if you browse /all. Kinda annoying tbh.

Not if you sort by active. Active reliably results in posts with a ton of discussion happening, being on top.

Memes and porn aren't known for amassing hundreds of comments, so much as upvotes.

But active shows you 2 days old posts too. On the other hand sorting by hot shows you NSFW posts or memes with 2 upvotes and 0 comments for some reason.

That's the whole point of active, posts stay up there as long as there are still people talking in the comments. It's so much better than reddit that just chokes out all discourse the second a piece of content is "too old"

Which is great until the same post from 2 weeks ago has been the top of your active feed in home or local.

I honestly much preferred the Reddit method of once it’s a day old, move on.

Even if you do, why advocate for depriving those of us who like it of it? Just use a different sort or request more sort options in a github issue.

This is why I prefer sorting by top

I think only if you browse "All", I have not seen any porn because I haven't subscribed to any and I'm only using "Subscribed".

Lemmy is fucking dog shit. It's way worse than reddit.