Welcome to the internet! Half my lemmy community blocklist is to keep cartoon titties off my feed.
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You should publish that list for .. Um... research purposes.
My understanding -- I've never used it -- is that Bluesky uses some sort of "curated feed" list. The idea, from what I gathered, is that some person (or people?) could create a list of stuff and then people subscribe to it. Seemed like an interesting approach, since it's a route to improve personalizing content relative to, say, Reddit. Originally, Reddit intended to run off a recommendation system, but that kind of fell by the wayside in the first few years.
I've wondered how practical it would be to have people publish feeds, then take into account one's voting behavior and how it reflects feed content to help do recommendations. Can't just score a feed by aligned posts -- otherwise, it'd be trivially-gameable you could have people spamming by creating feeds and including popular things, and then also including some spam item. But I could imagine that being the foundation for something that does a good job of recommending stuff.
Hopefully this link shared correctly, but I found that furries are all over the place there. And while I don’t care that they want to be furries, I don’t really want to see it all over.
Anyway, this moderation list has helped a lot in filtering out a lot of that type of post and has made my experience a lot better.
It’s a scary looking link, but I promise I just hit the share button from the app. This list is called “Ultimate Furry Mute”
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ekvhqkjiqocjabzxdckyh7oj/lists/3k6y4nbg3bo2f
Edit: and then this one is the same idea, just a different moderation list
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:zxb6pe4wetisrbvsjniqsllr/lists/3k3achhhenb2l
I found that furries are all over the place there.
I have some unfortunate news for you about this place then...
There's two or three instances where all the smut comes from, if you block those, it really cleans out your feed.
I honestly don't see a lot of furry stuff here in my feed or server. Or even in All when I browse that from time to time.
Yeah, there's not much content, but I've found a lot of fans hanging around here, much more so than say, Reddit or other mainstream sites. Kinda like how Linux users are over-represented here. There's a lot of overlap with furries and techies. I can spot a furry avatar/username from a mile away.
That you know of. Your granddad could be a furry—you’ve just never asked the right questions.
And that, to me, is fine. People can be furries or like furries. I'm OK with that.
On Bluesky, however, there is/was a ton of furry content being posted, and not just drawings or simple photos. I sadly know what a furry, wolf penis looks like by just scrolling through the app. So the moderation lists are great.
That's unfortunate and uncalled for on a public forum where people didn't ask to see it right away. Sorry you had to see that.
I appreciate that.
I mean, I'm not offended or anything. But I just don't have any NEED to see that stuff when I'm just checking to see what people are talking about.
I mean, they are trying to build a twitter alternative, aren't they?
Yes, exactly
I mean, there's plenty of anime pornography on the Threadiverse too. It's just that sopuli.xyz, your home instance, isn't federated with a number of hosts (and you may not be viewing its "all" feed).
Look at the "Blocked instances" tab. You've got stuff like:
https://kbin.burggit.moe/ (which I can't seem to reach due to some sort of TLS issue, but burggit.moe proper has "Free expression, including the Loli/Shota/Cub variety, are welcome here!", and I assume that this is a gateway to the same material). I definitely remember that burggit.moe used to deal with consentual-nonconsentual material and underage anime material, because it caused lemmynsfw.com to defederate from them.
https://ac.akirin.xyz/ I don't know what content they truck in, and their front page doesn't indicate it, but it looks like the scrolling URLs in the bottom contain a bunch of links to various Fediverse hosts that deal in underage anime porn, and the user icons seem to all be anime girls, so I'm assuming that that might be their thing.
Not going to do a complete list of the blocked instances there, just pointing out that even if you look at your "all" feed on sopuli.xyz, it might not be representative of the Threadiverse as an aggregate.
I truly do not understand this place one bit.
I can confirm that All on Sopuli is regularly inundated by suggestive (but usually not outright pornographic) anime pics. Most of these are the "Moe" communities, but there are a handful that specific to the franchise the characters are from.
there's plenty of anime pornography on the Threadiverse too.
Sure but pretty much none of the apps are going to be opened and be presented with "here have anime tiddies!"
I’ve never even thought to access BlueSky via anything but the ‘following’ tab. Wow!
There's different feeds you subscribe to, and you can disable adult content.
Its twitter's alt.
It is, if that's what you follow.