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.
Weirdly enough, I got a long blocklist of communities in languages I don’t understand, mostly German, those often showed up while I browsed [all].
Porn rarely shows up for me, even hentai. I’ve yet to see a furry porn post while browsing [all]. I wonder if this has something to do with the home instance? I even have “Show NSFW posts” on, so it’s not that.
Weirdly enough, I got a long blocklist of communities in languages I don’t understand, mostly German, those often showed up while I browsed [all].
You can exclude German in your language preferences.
You use the word ‘realiously’ and therefore you’re invalid in your concern. Here’s an idea - stop looking for it and stop being in denial.
Case closed.
Stop huffing your own farts
I browse /all for the most part. There are about 20+ communities on my block list so I don’t see a bunch of furry/trans/penises.
The downside to the fediverse is all the repetitive communities across different instances.
There is sadly no algorithm here
Yes thank you after 50 comments I have learned this
You can try Reddit, I’ve heard they have a lot of algorithms for you.
You know we could have a good, FOSS algorithm there. Your are waging an imaginary war against an imaginary threat.
I don’t believe that.
- I see no furry porn
- I see too many posts about mayonnaise
And more importantly, where can I find it
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)
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.
I’m also confused. I’m on the main furry instance, and it looks like there was one NSFW-image posted locally within the last 7 days.
Some instances block stuff like that so you don’t need to block it yourself. Does also mean you can’t opt in while using that instance though.
Depends how its blocked.
Programming.dev hide communities without defederating, and publish a list of the hidden ones. You can just subscribe to them and you get full access.
Conspiracy: there is an algorithm and it’s working as intended. Op is just in denial.
Many instances block nsfw instances, maybe some of the furry communities are impacted by that.
I see the occasional oldensmut and that’s about it
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.
Sometimes I have a habit of unblurring at home, suddenly did it instinctively at work and realised what I’d just done to a literal NSFW filter.
Oh I’ve been there
We should be allowed to look at a little porn at work. 🤷
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!)
Since we are nitpicking: “show all posts in reverse chronological order” is not an algorithm, it’s a description of an outcome of an algorithm. The algorithm is the specific steps the computer needs to take to make it so. There can be different algorithms that sort posts chronological, all with the same outcome.
Ha, a nitpick on the nitpick! Spot on!
I’m also a little annoyed by the fact that people use “algorithm” to refer to a “recommendation system” for social media. “Recommendation system” is really the term that one should use, and on top of that, one should really say that the system as a whole is using a heuristic to come up with the best-possible content rather than an algorithm.
…and looking at the Wikipedia page for “algorithm”, apparently they even explicitly point this out:
In contrast, a heuristic is an approach to solving problems without well-defined correct or optimal results.[3] For example, although social media recommender systems are commonly called “algorithms”, they actually rely on heuristics as there is no truly “correct” recommendation.
It’s probably not going away, since it’s entered popular usage, but it really isn’t a correct use of the computer science terminology.
It’s kinda like someone decided to start calling the cylinders in a car’s engine “the metal thing”…which they are, but are far from the only “metal thing” in a car. Then they accidentally messed up the classification and called it “the plastic thing”. I mean, yeah, I get what people mean from context, same way an auto mechanic could interpret “the plastic thing” to mean “the cylinders”, but it kind of gnaws at my soul every time I see it.
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
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.
Block the furry instances. There is no algorithm, and it’s a good thing.
Where are you seeing all this furry porn? Asking for a friend, who wants to see more furry porn.
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
I got it all blocked and then someone spun up like 30 AI porn communities and I had to block those too…
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.
And weirdly, you have to be more specific than that!
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.
