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There's a constant influx of new communities with softcore sexualized characters, especially anime girls, that I could do without.
I don't mind anime and manga in general, so I would rather not block the instances that specialize in it, but blocking softcore communities one by one seems be a never ending task.
I also think it may be off-putting for new members.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 55 minutes ago* (last edited 54 minutes ago)

No you're an adult and so are your coworkers.

You can block anytning you want to not see

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

Perhaps it would help if you were to... say.... document cases of this. Perhaps a list and links to as many of these communities as you can point to. You know, to research and begin assessing.... the scale of the problem.... and maybe how to resolve it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago

I block all anime and meme communities and never run into animated giant tits any more.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Yeah, I always think that more than a NSFW binary there should be three or maybe 4 options.

  • Totally safe for work/public
  • Suggestive
  • Actively sexualised nudity
  • Hardcore and/or very kinky
  • Violence and gore

Maybe other folks would do it a bit differently, which is probably why we're stuck on the binary.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 14 hours ago

Some sites categorize SFW but skimpy stuff as "Suggestive" so they can be selectively filtered.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 12 hours ago

Categorise them as Nearly Safe For Work

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

We need Mastodon style tools so we can mute and block users and communities. Muting keywords and hashtags as well. I rarely see anything on Mastodon that I don't want to.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

These are already a thing actually. I have many communities blocked because I simply don't have any interest in them. I also have the entire instance of lemmynsfw blocked too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I have many communities blocked because I simply don't have any interest in them.

Lol. Yeah. I'm glad that perhaps every local sports team has a dedicated feed, but I still block them so I can browse all for interesting stuff more easily.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Local sports is most of my blocked communities lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago

I switch to the Voyager app exactly to block communities and keywords. But I also need to block whole instances to be honest. Namely instances from countries I don't speak the language.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago

I agree, it annoys me too.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I've blocked few instances themselves, ani.social for example m

[–] [email protected] 9 points 14 hours ago

I've blocked so so many. It can be tiring

[–] [email protected] 8 points 14 hours ago

Lobby the mods of those communities to have and enforce rules defining what must be tagged NSFW.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago

Thanks for linking to this, it could indeed be a solution.

The RFC: https://github.com/Neshura87/rfcs/blob/main/0004-post-tags.md

TL;DR: a tag/flag system for posts is described in this RFC and being actively developed with a part 1 already merged and a part 2 in review. Tagging would only be possible for privileged users such as mods and admins so they can keep a sensical classification. So from there, we would need softcore communities' mods to agree to use a specific tag that we could filter out. That's still a lot of if, but it's a good step, with many other use cases.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago