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I seriously. I’m for realiously. I got like 8 different furry subs in my block list and filtered out terms like ‘yiff’ etc. You’d think the algorithm would have picked up that I’m not interested in that shit but I still can’t scroll a half hour without a wolf boner adorning my screen.

I know I can simply block all NSFW content but that’d just be throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

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[–] Ilixtze@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

How do you get all the furry porn? I've been here for two years and barely see any.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 0 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

If you don't see anything at !transyiff@lemmy.blahaj.zone or !yiff@pawb.social then you probably have NSFW content hidden in your settings.

Try https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=furry&nsfw=true for some other communities.

[–] tomi000@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I have no idea what youre talking about. I havent seen a single furry porn since I joined like a year ago...

Edit: 2 years ago

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

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.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Fleur_@aussie.zone 1 points 1 hour ago

I feel like sisyphus on this site. Especially with that guy who has 1 million different accounts all on different instances but with the same name.

[–] TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com 3 points 4 hours ago

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

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 4 points 5 hours ago

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.

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 54 points 11 hours ago

Theres no algorithm lol

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 44 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Welcome to the old internet.

There is no algorithm. Lemmy doesn’t “figure out” anything.

There is lots of furry porn.

We love you.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 8 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I browse all and have blocked a ton of furry communities.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 1 points 3 hours ago

well yeah as I said I don't block the non porn ones. furry in real life is fine. if the comic characters where not anthro's it would be like any other day in the life type comics.

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[–] bedwyr@piefed.ca 18 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I haven't seen a single furry anything, or any type of porn for that matter.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 3 points 10 hours ago (3 children)
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[–] one_old_coder@piefed.social 102 points 16 hours ago

Block the furry instances. There is no algorithm, and it's a good thing.

[–] zxqwas@lemmy.world 119 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

There is no algorithm.

Are you looking at the feed of everything that is posted on your instance?

[–] elephantium@lemmy.world 9 points 10 hours ago

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!)

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 1 points 6 hours ago

Subscribe to communities or magazines you want, I never see any of that stuff. Maybe it helps that I'm on mbin too.

[–] remon@ani.social 61 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (6 children)

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.

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Blocking instances will only block communities from that instance, you can still interact with the users on other communities.

As long as you're on lemmy. Piefed does it stupidly.

[–] remon@ani.social 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

It's the home instance of the account that matters. I wasn't disagreeing with you, just adding a proviso.

[–] MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 17 points 16 hours ago (5 children)

That seems to have done the trick, thanks.

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[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 25 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Only 8? Rookie numbers there mate.

[–] mystrawberrymind@piefed.ca 4 points 11 hours ago

Only 8 blocks. Found his problem!🤣

[–] Libb@piefed.social 11 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

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 ;)

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[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 19 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] forestbeasts@pawb.social 2 points 3 hours ago

Come to pawb.social, it's everywhere here!

Even though I'm a furry I don't tend to go look at it because I'm not really into most anthro stuff, but it is there.

-- Frost

[–] insomniac_lemon@lemmy.cafe 21 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (3 children)

Posted by MutantTailThing...

Just a normal man. An innocent man... most certainly NOT a dog wearing a Groucho Marx disguise (a pair of fake glasses with accompanying nose and toothbrush moustache).

Hmmmm....

Lt. Doakes (from the TV show Dexter) sits in his car suspiciously viewing something, he just can't prove it yet.

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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[–] YeahIgotskills2@lemmy.world 6 points 12 hours ago

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.

[–] Mantzy81@aussie.zone 15 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

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

.... unzip

[–] tal@lemmy.today 9 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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?

[–] Mantzy81@aussie.zone 2 points 7 hours ago

Fox boner pics? Go on....

....unzip (again)

[–] whaleross@lemmy.world 11 points 14 hours ago

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

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 13 points 15 hours ago (6 children)

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.

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[–] fatcat@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 16 hours ago (7 children)

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.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 15 points 16 hours ago

Conspiracy: there is an algorithm and it's working as intended. Op is just in denial.

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[–] historicaldocuments@lemmy.world 7 points 13 hours ago

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.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world -3 points 6 hours ago

don't hate us because you anus!

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