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.
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.
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
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.
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