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How is a fediverse user supposed to find communities? I can’t find a way to search across the fediverse, which pretty much kills the concept IMO. I was browsing All via Lemmy.world - Mlem - iOS and my feed is half anime porn, with some pictures depicting underage and others not blurred as NSFW.

Am I going about the fediverse all wrong? How do y’all deal with this? Right now the fediverse seems like a glitchy, overcomplicated 4chan.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You could disable NSFW in your profile or use a service like lemmyverse.net to find communities to subscribe to.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Is nsfw specifically for porn or is it like Reddit where it was used for anything anyone might find offensive or inappropriate anywhere? I hesitate to block all nsfw content on the fediverse for fear of missing legitimate content.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

From what I've seen NSFW tags are implemented similarly to reddit, however from browsing all and not having NSFW blocked the majority of the posts are porn/nudity.

I've been blocking NSFW communities that I don't want to see while browsing all which has been working fairly well.

I like how the app Jerboa can handle NSFW, I have it set to show the post, but blur the image, which makes it easier to decide if it is something I want to look at or not.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It would be nice if we could have a tag specifically for nudity and/or porn.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There were a few times on r/stablediffusion where I clicked on something nsfw expecting nudity or something, and was instead greeted by extremely gory eldritch abominations.

Having separate tags for boobs vs nsfl would indeed be nice

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Like a subcategory for NSFW - nudity, extreme violence, porn, death (aka NSFL), etc.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Preferable all of the above. It's not because I'm looking at anime boobs that I want to find myself looking at something like goro (if you don't know what that is already, you probably won't want to look it up).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So... my curiosity got the best of me and I googled "goro" and it pulled up Mortal Kombat and I feel like I might have dodge a bullet thanks to the recent game release and opted to not dig any further. Also, anyone remember the heyday of r/spacedicks?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Damn straight I remember spacedicks. Who was the lord of spacedicks? The guy from Prince of Bellaire. And you had to comment in caps the word FAGGOT. Crazy subreddit

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You absolutely dodged a bullet. It's one of those things I suggest people never find out about. Only reason I know about it is because of a certain good hentai site (good for quantity) with bad filters (see: none) and I didn't realise until it was too late.

Never heard of r/spacedicks but with the context of how you brought it up, I don't think I want to know 😂

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I guess my instance doesn't federate because browsing all I don't see anything nsfw. NSFW is on though.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yes, you're right. I personally leave NSFW toggled on and go ahead to manually block every single community I don't want to see.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Think this is what i’m looking for… how are you blocking communities? thanks!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It depends on the client your using, but most the time you need to fill to the communities page then block it there

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I'm using Jerboa and it has a button to block the community.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Visit the community on the web interface and click on the red button:

Most mobile clients work the same. There's usually a context menu within the community that you can pop up and where you'll find that option.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Doesn't help when some twat doesn't mark it nsfw.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Two things you can do: disable being shown nsfw altogether, and browse communities that exist to help you find communities (like [email protected] )

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My block list for anime/nsfw is getting ridiculous

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Someone should create a masterlist of nsfw communities and create anotherscript that blocks them lul

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Being able to block instances as a user (not defed but just hide all their communities) would be helpful

Theres a few specific ones I am constantly blocking communities from (nsfw/porn, anime, furry, sports)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah :) I am already on a simple script to mass block communities ;)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Update: https://github.com/Pdzly/lemmy-block-script

Its a bit techy, but somewhat straightforward. Simply put in the communities names and you have to get your jwt_token from a request you made to lemmy ;)

Added a nsfw community list to it. and i am open if you have a list of nsfw or bad communities

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My current fix is just subscribing to a lot of communities and using all less. The other option is to uncheck nsfw but that of course blocks non nudity stuff too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I do the same. Back on Reddit I always used r/all, but here that just doesn't look to be viable at the moment.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Maybe they can do something similar to reddit which is a popular tab by default. Basically just all with the nsfw and fringe stuff removed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean you weren't using unfiltered all were you? You at least blocked the shit that bothered you the most?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah of course, but with how messed up the filter options are on lemmy right now all sorts of stuff show up. At least with r/all it had to be popular.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It won’t be like this forever, simply growing pains of a brand new rapidly growing platform.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I totally don't have that problem on kbin. I can also just view my subbed "Magazines".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Do you use an app to browse kbin on ios? I couldn’t get wefwef to take my Kbin account.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On iOS, you can just use Safari, and “add kbin to home screen.” This creates a shortcut to kbin on your home screen, but it also allows you to use kbin like an app. The website has an amazing UI through safari that feels like a native app you purchased in the App Store. I’ll attach a screenshot to this comment for you to see.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you — this is what I’ve been doing for the past couple of days. I still think there’s a need for an app… this browser stuff is glitchy. It logs me out automatically, I can’t add multiple accounts, my keyboard loads all funky sometimes, and media needs to be manually expanded.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Being able to block entire instances is a feature that I’m surprised isn’t in the works. It would be simpler to block 2 instances than to block a hundred communities.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It is on kbin. Go to kbin.social/d/[instanceaddress], then in the righthand column is a block symbol, exactly like blocking a magazine or a user

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thanks all for the search suggestions! Will play around with them when I get some free time.

Does anybody know a good way to search for a community within an instance? Let’s say i find c/fake community on a non-world Lemmy instance. How do I pull that up from my account on Lemmy.World so i can subscribe to it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For most you just search on lemmy.world and communities on other instances show up.

~~Otherwise use !community@instance to find something.~~

Actually, just enter the url of the community in search.. then it should find it and then you subscribe in the sidebar.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

@Doxix Honestly just moving to a different instance instead of lemmy.world should do it; many of them do not federate with NSFW instances or if they do they federate with a limited selection of them. I haven't checked in awhile, but when I was looking for what Kbin/Lemmy instance to join lemmy.world federates with everything except for two instances, which is asking for trouble.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You could look at something like [email protected] (apologies if that link doesn't work, it's my first time doing this) so you can pre-check what a community is about.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Personally I just use the search function at the top of the website or in Memmy to look for keywords and hope for a match.

Also as others have said you can block NSFW stuff which should help.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I don't like to browse All timeline. You can search community using tools like browse feddit, Lemmyverse or others to search community. Then you can aggresively subscribe any community you fancy. After that you can never open All timeline.
There are no algorithm to give you a good community to subscribe on All timeline. It is just amalgation of all subs your instance-mate subscribe to. And given you are in .world, all kinds of people exist here, hence All timeline filled with weird things.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I've been using Connect for Lemmy for a few days now and it helped me a lot with finding instances I wanted to follow.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Not sure, I've had to block communities and users individually. Not sure why futa/furry/hentai/AI porn are default.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You could try finding an instance that isn't porn-friendly. The one I'm currently using (https://dmv.social) asks users not to subscribe to any NSFW communities, which prevents those communities from showing up in my All feed.

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