How to find communities in fediverse without getting spammed with offensive porn?

rarkgrames, 10 months 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.

SoNick, 10 months 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.

Ab_intra, 10 months 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.

Tigbitties, 10 months ago

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

Doxix, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

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

joobeejoo47, 10 months ago

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.

Doxix, 10 months 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.

Abigail, 10 months ago

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.

ReCursing, 10 months ago (edited 10 months 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

WigglyTortoise, 10 months ago

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

breadsmasher, 10 months ago

My block list for anime/nsfw is getting ridiculous

Rooki, 10 months ago

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

breadsmasher, 10 months ago

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)

Rooki, 10 months ago

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

Rooki, 10 months ago

Update: 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

liontigerwings, 10 months ago

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.

tsac, 10 months ago

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.

BrerChicken, 10 months ago

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

tsac, 10 months 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.

Duchess, 10 months ago

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

Doxix, 10 months ago

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?

Matte, 10 months ago

sub.rehab

NettoHikari, 10 months ago

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

GrossGhost, 10 months ago

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.

NettoHikari, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

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.

Doxix, 10 months ago

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

TheAmishMan, 10 months ago

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

NettoHikari, 10 months ago

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

https://social.fossware.space/pictrs/image/70997054-2c17-428f-9927-ac88e4040e23.png

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.

Today, 10 months ago

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

starlinguk, 10 months ago

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

b0thvar, 10 months ago

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.

Xylinna, 10 months ago

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

WiseBeginning, 10 months ago

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

Xylinna, 10 months ago

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