So let me start off by saying that I recognize that there was initially a genuine problem with people who didn’t want NSFW content being exposed to it.

Some of this was due to the fact that not all content was being correctly flagged as NSFW, and some of it was because a lot of users didn’t realize that individual users can choose to completely block an entire instance - which is not only a very easy and fast solution, but also does not require an all-or-nothing approach of defederating from NSFW instances.

A number of changes were made, but some of those lingering changes have meant that people who do want to see NSFW content are not because:

  1. Even having subscribed to several NSFW subs, they are effectively completely missing from my feed.

  2. Most NSFW thumbnails are blurred.

Both of these behaviors should not be occurring if a user has chosen in their settings to NOT hide NSFW content.

However, I will also say that the blurred state is something that deserves its own user setting (i.e. so that a user can choose to NOT hide NSFW, but still want them blurred or not) - preferably with the granularity to set it for various sub-types of NSFW (e.g. porn, gore, etc…).

  • assbutt@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Oh gimme a fuckin’ break, you’re all acting like this is some moral and ethical dilemma looming over the future of the fediverse. It’s just porn, homie, and if you think you can separate the internet from porn, you’re delusional.

    Don’t invent problems where they don’t exist. Just because this is not functionally identical to reddit does not mean that the existing solutions won’t work. What are you so worried about anyway, glimpsing a nipple? Mark it nsfw, give users the option to blur or block. That’s all that needs to happen. Fuckin’ A, this isn’t complicated.