lemmy.world doesn't seem to have many established NSFW communities; they appear to be in separate instances. Is there any benefit to this or anything stopping lemmy.world from having NSFW communities?
lemmy.world doesn't seem to have many established NSFW communities; they appear to be in separate instances. Is there any benefit to this or anything stopping lemmy.world from having NSFW communities?
This may be more of an "out of the loop" thing, but I'm new to this site and I'm noticing that lemmy.world seems surprisingly bereft of any substantial NSFW content. I'm surprised! Isn't the adage that porn motivates technological progress?
What's even more surprising is that the NSFW instance seems brand spanking new.
Is there some code-of-conduct thing which has prevented NSFW community growth? Or is it just a demographic thing where there wasn't much/any demand until the Reddit exodus?
It's better to separate nsfw into their own instances, because then admins who don't want porn on their Lemmy servers can just block the offending instance.
Also, try https://pornlemmy.com .
I'm having the opposite experience. I filter by "all" and I am flooded with NSFW content. Been blocking individual communities, but I don't know if I can just block the lemmynsfw instance(I'm using Jerboa).
There is a setting in Jerboa to hide NSFW, but at the moment it's not possible for individual users to block entire instances, although it's a recommend feature on Lemmy.
Yeah, I had checked that when I made my account as I don't mind it on occasion. Thanks for the reminder! I forgot about that.
It'd be better to post that stuff to lemmynsfw.com . Not only for organizational purposes, but lemmy.world may go anti-NSFW for whatever reason, where an instance dedicated to it won't. Also for people who don't want NSFW stuff in their All, they can simply block one instance and filter it all out. Whereas if it's on .world , then they'd have to block each individual community.
It would be nice if all NSFW was annexed to their own instance and left out of generally populated ones. There’s no need for it to be side-by-side with generalized content.
Funny thing is that AI tech is turning NSFW into one of the best starting points and introductions to the subject. I'm all for separating it, but the separation turns out to have its own complexities. After messing with some of the tools, a large chunk of NSFW is from Stable Diffusion. There are certain aspects that are hard to generate and only really apparent with some practice writing prompts. It is far easier to quantify the types of issues that arise from bad prompts using a human body where we are much better equip to detect very subtle mistakes at a glace once we know where to look. It is an easy path into using SD for other endeavors. Admittedly, it ruins a bit of the primal appeal, and totally flips the subject where you're then browsing looking for clever prompting. Funny thing is, the like count often correlates with prompt cleverness rather than output. It is the primary driver of engagement.
I think that's a good thing. Different topics have different moderation needs and I think specialized instances will be better equipped to deal with those special needs. Communities being on separate instances is by design and we shouldn't have an expectation for instances to do everything.
Before last month, lemmy was very very small and comparatively inactive. Lemmy admins are hobbyists who run the server in their spare time, most did/do not want to deal with pornographic content on their server as with it come a lot of potental moderational and legal challanges.
From what I know there are a number of legal complications/liabilities to hosting NSFW content. For most people hosting instances it's just not worth the hassle given that users can still interact with the NSFW communities on the dedicated instance.
Most (all?) Lemmy instances are hosted by individuals doing it for personal interest. I assume many admins don't want the legal liability of random users possibly posting illegal NSFW material.
I think it's partly a demographic thing, too. lemmynsfw.com came into existence with the initial Reddit exodus, as did most Lemmy instances. Lemmy was apparently a pretty quiet place until three weeks ago.
Lol yeah this place was nuts before the exodus. It was mostly marxists simping for Mao and Stalin and you'd regularly find 2yo posts at the top. Couldn't convince anyone else to join either because they'd go check it out, see people claiming that the holodomor, tienanmen square, and the armenian genocide never happened, and support for "the Z warriors" who are "fighting ukranian nazis and western imperialism," and understandably they'd nope right the fuck out.
I'm so fucking glad all of you came to this platform to make it usable. Seriously, thank each and every one of you.
Meh I'm fine with how it is now. I don't need porn mixed in with my tech nerd news and discussions.
I'm wondering what's stopping folks from setting up CP and JB instances
Even reddit and Twitter have problems with that
It's possible they are getting set up, but not federating. Hopefully not though.
Spinning up an instance is akin to setting a web server. There's a lot of personal information that gets tied to ownership of both domain and the hardware itself. This data is publicly known for those who know where to look at. Without the typical layers of privacy that shield anonymous users in big corporate services. Mostly due do payment information, whether you rent hardware or selfhost using some DNS registry rental from an IP provider. You're out in the open hosting CSAM. You'd have local security forces in your home within the week in most developed and developing world countries.
On top of that, your instance would be immediately defederated by all other instances. So you'd be the only one on the hook for that crime.
You can do it anonymously as well, but it requires knowledge and it's easy to make a mistake.