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I got it all blocked and then someone spun up like 30 AI porn communities and I had to block those too...

I had to block the NSFW because there was Just. So. Much. Of. It. 😒

Because IT people run Lemmy, and IT people are surprisingly often furries.

Also there is no "algorithm" in the way people usually mean it. For better or worse, there is just a few basic ways of sorting your feed.

Finally, in my entire 3 years on here, I've never seen any NSFW furry stuff. Now, I rarely ever use the global feed, and my instance isn't a general purpose mega-instance, so that probably plays a large part in it.

Probably just yiffit.net and pawb.social being themselves. I, for one, don't mind it, but I can understand why people don't wanna associate with it.

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.

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.

don't hate us because you anus!

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?

Only 8? Rookie numbers there mate.

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.

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 ;)

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.

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.

Where are you seeing all this furry porn? Asking for a friend, who wants to see more furry porn.

Subscribe to groups that interest you, block groups, instances and users annoying you. Stick to your subscribed feed.

TIL I need to sub to a whole instance. Cheers OP.

.... unzip

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.

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.