No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world Doxix @lemmy.world 1y ago

How to find communities in fediverse without getting spammed with offensive porn?

How is a fediverse user supposed to find communities? I can’t find a way to search across the fediverse, which pretty much kills the concept IMO. I was browsing All via Lemmy.world - Mlem - iOS and my feed is half anime porn, with some pictures depicting underage and others not blurred as NSFW.

Am I going about the fediverse all wrong? How do y’all deal with this? Right now the fediverse seems like a glitchy, overcomplicated 4chan.

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You could disable NSFW in your profile or use a service like lemmyverse.net to find communities to subscribe to.
- Is nsfw specifically for porn or is it like Reddit where it was used for anything anyone might find offensive or inappropriate anywhere? I hesitate to block all nsfw content on the fediverse for fear of missing legitimate content.
  
  From what I've seen NSFW tags are implemented similarly to reddit, however from browsing all and not having NSFW blocked the majority of the posts are porn/nudity.
  
  I've been blocking NSFW communities that I don't want to see while browsing all which has been working fairly well.
  
  I like how the app Jerboa can handle NSFW, I have it set to show the post, but blur the image, which makes it easier to decide if it is something I want to look at or not.
  
  Yes, you're right. I personally leave NSFW toggled on and go ahead to manually block every single community I don't want to see.
  
  Doesn't help when some twat doesn't mark it nsfw.
Subscribe to this https://lemmy.world/c/newcommunities
Two things you can do: disable being shown nsfw altogether, and browse communities that exist to help you find communities (like [email protected] )
My block list for anime/nsfw is getting ridiculous
- Someone should create a masterlist of nsfw communities and create anotherscript that blocks them lul
  
  Being able to block instances as a user (not defed but just hide all their communities) would be helpful
  
  Theres a few specific ones I am constantly blocking communities from (nsfw/porn, anime, furry, sports)
https://browse.feddit.de/
My current fix is just subscribing to a lot of communities and using all less. The other option is to uncheck nsfw but that of course blocks non nudity stuff too.
- I do the same. Back on Reddit I always used r/all, but here that just doesn't look to be viable at the moment.
  
  Maybe they can do something similar to reddit which is a popular tab by default. Basically just all with the nsfw and fringe stuff removed.
  
  I mean you weren't using unfiltered all were you? You at least blocked the shit that bothered you the most?
It won’t be like this forever, simply growing pains of a brand new rapidly growing platform.
Being able to block entire instances is a feature that I’m surprised isn’t in the works. It would be simpler to block 2 instances than to block a hundred communities.
- It is on kbin. Go to kbin.social/d/[instanceaddress], then in the righthand column is a block symbol, exactly like blocking a magazine or a user
http://sub.rehab
I totally don't have that problem on kbin. I can also just view my subbed "Magazines".
- Do you use an app to browse kbin on ios? I couldn’t get wefwef to take my Kbin account.
  
  On iOS, you can just use Safari, and “add kbin to home screen.” This creates a shortcut to kbin on your home screen, but it also allows you to use kbin like an app. The website has an amazing UI through safari that feels like a native app you purchased in the App Store. I’ll attach a screenshot to this comment for you to see.
Thanks all for the search suggestions! Will play around with them when I get some free time.

Does anybody know a good way to search for a community within an instance? Let’s say i find c/fake community on a non-world Lemmy instance. How do I pull that up from my account on Lemmy.World so i can subscribe to it?
- For most you just search on lemmy.world and communities on other instances show up.
  
  ~~Otherwise use !community@instance to find something.~~
  
  Actually, just enter the url of the community in search.. then it should find it and then you subscribe in the sidebar.
I've been using Connect for Lemmy for a few days now and it helped me a lot with finding instances I wanted to follow.
Personally I just use the search function at the top of the website or in Memmy to look for keywords and hope for a match.

Also as others have said you can block NSFW stuff which should help.
I don't like to browse All timeline. You can search community using tools like browse feddit, Lemmyverse or others to search community. Then you can aggresively subscribe any community you fancy. After that you can never open All timeline.
There are no algorithm to give you a good community to subscribe on All timeline. It is just amalgation of all subs your instance-mate subscribe to. And given you are in .world, all kinds of people exist here, hence All timeline filled with weird things.
You could look at something like [email protected] (apologies if that link doesn't work, it's my first time doing this) so you can pre-check what a community is about.
@Doxix Honestly just moving to a different instance instead of lemmy.world should do it; many of them do not federate with NSFW instances or if they do they federate with a limited selection of them. I haven't checked in awhile, but when I was looking for what Kbin/Lemmy instance to join lemmy.world federates with everything except for two instances, which is asking for trouble.
You could try finding an instance that isn't porn-friendly. The one I'm currently using (https://dmv.social) asks users not to subscribe to any NSFW communities, which prevents those communities from showing up in my All feed.
Not sure, I've had to block communities and users individually. Not sure why futa/furry/hentai/AI porn are default.

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