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Subscribe to communities or magazines you want, I never see any of that stuff. Maybe it helps that I'm on mbin too.
I peruse all and do not have this issue. I may have blocked a furry porn community or two but I have several non porn furry stuff not blocked and it has not been an issue there. I even set my settings to show nsfw because there are some people who think a skimpy bathing suit or such is nsfw.
I browse all and have blocked a ton of furry communities.
Seriously, I blocked maybe 3 communities, have no specific terms blocked, have NSFW enabled, and might see an anthropomorphic hyena with abs maybe once a month but with the clitordick. I'm super curious if this dude is just exaggerating or maybe there's some underground furry subscribe specifically targeting him.
Theres no algorithm lol
Welcome to the old internet.
There is no algorithm. Lemmy doesn’t “figure out” anything.
There is lots of furry porn.
We love you.
I haven't seen a single furry anything, or any type of porn for that matter.
https://lemmyverse.net/communities?nsfw=true
Subscribe to a few communities on there and you will.
No need to subscribe, just browse all and every now and then there's someone methed up and horny and the new of all is filled with nsfw posts.
As long as they're in one community it's not hard to block but idk if I can personally block instances. I'm sure it's possible but eh. But I don't want to put nsfw filter on either as not all nsfw is porn.
Block the furry instances. There is no algorithm, and it's a good thing.
There is no algorithm.
Are you looking at the feed of everything that is posted on your instance?
Technically, "show all posts in reverse chronological order" is an algorithm :P
(I know what you mean, and I agree overall, but I couldn't resist the silly nitpick about semantics!)
Only 8? Rookie numbers there mate.
Only 8 blocks. Found his problem!🤣
Instance blocking pawb.social and yiffit.net should get rid of most of it.
edit: to combat some misinformation in the thread below: Blocking instances will only block communities from that instance, you can still interact with the users on other communities.
That seems to have done the trick, thanks.
Note that that's also going to block content from users from that instance, not just communities hosted on that instance.
I feel like when people choose an instance that has a deliberate “slant” you have to accept you may be blocked by folks who don’t want that.
Like everyone on .ml
Yeah, I can get that perspective. Just saying, as OP may not be aware of all of the effects of the block.
That is incorrect.
You are correct, thanks. Defederation does block users from an instance, but user-level instance blocks on Lemmy do not (though PieFed apparently has a separate user-level user block).
Yiffit.net has been dead for awhile, I thought?
I wouldn't know, I have it blocked.
Damn we almost had them
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I use boost for lemmy on my phone. I filter out certain key words for topics that I have zero interest in. Works a treat.
Filter your home Feed by Subscribed only, not All so you'll be sure to only see the stuff you want to see.
That's how I use Piefed/Lemmy and if it was not for that filtering tool, I would have given up a long time ago... Too much noise and too much weird stuff ;)
Yeah, I just don't think that trying to view everything posted to the Threadiverse and blacklisting what one doesn't want to see is really something that will scale.
Like, imagine viewing a combined feed of every Web page that someone puts up anywhere on the Web. That's got a lot more volume than the Threadiverse does in 2026. The signal-to-noise ratio is just going to be unworkable.
Maybe someday, someone will build a recommendation system that profiles users and tries to suggest what they want, but I'm pretty bearish on the prospect of individually-curated killfiles. It didn't scale on Usenet and that had clients with more-powerful blacklisting functionality than do Threadiverse clients in 2026.
I really think that as of 2026, the most-scalable route is whitelisting what one does want to see. Find communities that have content that one is interested in, subscribe to those, browse Subscribed.
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I ended up creating an account just to block communities/users. At the time there was a poster posting to his own instance that was federated with lemmy.world, and he was reposting nothing but reddit posts, and the volume was such that they had to go. With no algorithm there's no way to just see subscribed stuff without losing out on discovering new things.
And just a tip, Lemmy will let you export (to JSON) your configuration options to include who you've blocked.
Subscribe to groups that interest you, block groups, instances and users annoying you. Stick to your subscribed feed.
Where are you seeing all this furry porn? Asking for a friend, who wants to see more furry porn.
Posted by MutantTailThing...
Hmmmm....
Although yeah, people posting the stuff they like generally works like that. Stuff you gotta block. And yeah not an easy task blocking each community.
Don't you have blurring turned on at least? I think that's default right, and it would certainly help with that adorning problem you mentioned while not disabling all NSFW.
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TIL I need to sub to a whole instance. Cheers OP.
.... unzip
User 1 browsing by All: Why are there so many wolf boner pictures all over my page? The content that I want to see is news updates on European Union treaty updates and related discussion. What the hell is wrong with Threadiverse users that they want to view this stuff?
User 2 browsing by All: What is all this boring diplomatic stuff? Why can't there be more wolf boner pics? What the hell is wrong with Threadiverse users that they want to view this stuff?
User 3 browsing by All: Why do I have to dig through all these wolf boner pics to get to my fox boner pics? What the hell is wrong with Threadiverse users that they want to view this stuff?
Fox boner pics? Go on....
....unzip (again)
Lemmy is a haven for the various kinds of material that, for one reason or another, has no place in commercial surveillance-capitalist social media, so you can expect lots of furry porn, horny anime and other such material alongside the Marxism-Leninism, calls to boycott Israel and frank talk about mental health and disability.
Wait, horny anime doesn't clog everyone else's feeds?
Not since I blocked ani.social!
I get the anime, but not the furry. Maybe I need to review my instance blocks.
Note that OP's home instance is lemmy.world. Your home instance is lemmy.zip.
Content on a community on a remote instance only shows up when browsing All on a home instance if at least one user on that home instance has subscribed to that community. So it could just be that there are more dedicated furry pornography aficionados on lemmy.world, users who are doing a determined job of seeking out and subscribing to furry pornography communities.
The user you're responding to, @SpikesOtherDog@ani.social, is complaining about too much sexy anime clogging his feed up. He has ani.social as his home instance, which is an instance dedicated to anime. So he's going to see all of the anime posted to ani.social when browsing All, since it's local content, stuff in communities on ani.social, not remote.
Whoa, who said I was complaining?
Fair enough.
No algorithm here, so that's why nothing is changing if you are not actively getting rid of it. But I' still wondering why I don't have the same issue. Barely see any porn at all here, even when using the "All" filter. I can't believe no one on my instance is looking at porn at all, so there should be some in all.
Conspiracy: there is an algorithm and it's working as intended. Op is just in denial.
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