I agree with most of the sentiment in these comments. Allow users to adjust filters & setting individually. Block individual users if they’re reported. Save defederating for hate speech, brigading, trolling, etc.

Defederation should be a last resort for problem instances. I don’t understand why so many people are suddenly so defederation-happy all of a sudden. Turn off NSFW content in your settings and just block any communities you don’t want to see. If it remains a problem down the line, then consider defederating.

You can filter out NSFW content in your own account settings, so I see no reason to defederate from them.

I’m not from your instance, so take my opinion with a grain of salt, but I specifically looked for an instance that could access all the communities I want to take part in. You probably have users like that on your instance too, who would be sad or would even move to another instance if this were done after they joined.

In your settings, you can choose not to see any NSFW content. Similarly, when you’re not logged in on an instance, any NSFW content is hidden by default. While registering, it asks whether you want to see that, so I think you must’ve picked yes.

The main reason to defederate from instances with NSFW communities, as far as I’m aware, is that your instance will cache anything one of its users views from another instance. If that thing includes stuff that’s illegal in the instance’s jurisdiction, that’s a problem… Lemmy doesn’t even cache images, just the text, but that would contain a link to whatever content’s in the original post.

I’m here to replace reddit, so yeah I think I personally would like the option, even though I don’t usually look at NSFW.

in Bob Belcher voice “its the principle of it!”

I have a question about the potential legal problems. If I host my own instance and federate with a server that (like lemmynsfw.com for the sake of argument) allows NSFW content of drawn minors (or apparent minors, whatever, the details don’t matter), their content is copied onto my instance and I’m not hosting that content, right? So if that content is illegal in my home country, am I now hosting illegal content?

While I am not seeking NSFW content, I’m not offended by it. Nice to know I can adjust my own settings accordingly. ツ

I think it’s OK as long as it’s tagged. Don’t really see the need to host it though, if there’s a difference on your end.

would helpf if there were more advanced settings for what kind of content you want and from where

for example, only allow nsfw content from whitelisted instances or communities rather than having to rely on manually blacklisting them 1 by 1

I’m less concerned with “NSFW or not” than with maintaining quality of discussions.

I’m pretty sure Lemmy provides settings to leave NSFW blur up to the user; isn’t that sufficient?

if it’s blurred, you cant actually see it unless you click on it. I guess I dont see the problem

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Not gonna lie, off topic but this post is a great highlight of my biggest annoyance of this federation stuff.

You say “we” and “you all” in your post but I’m browsing from kbin and had to bother checking wtf “we” meant to see if it even affected me at all. So while I’m not part of the “you all” you address in your post, I’m here.

I just thing that people need to be way more mindful of their language to avoid confusion with all the federation stuff.

When viewing new, I get a lot of posts from that instance that aren’t blurred… I’m not sure if it’s a tagging issue or a Jerboa issue, but it’s pretty obnoxious. I’m still generally supportive of keeping it around, but I hope they find a way to get that under control soon.