A boob, a butt, or even some violence like one might see on the news anyway, I’m not freaked out about all that and I don’t feel the need to hide it from those around me usually… that’s all fine fine, but I don’t want porn on my feed like at all.
Editing for clarity here:
Those are all things that might get flagged NSFW that I don’t mind seeing in general. I’m not uptight about it, it’s just a little different to be inundated with hardcore pornography like… while on the train.
I joined a primarily social insurance, kbin.social. I am very open to what is in my feed, sometimes to the extremer ends of that. I just believe that porn is a separate thing entirely and should be separated in some way. I’m not opposed to porn, but there’s a reason it had its own room in the video store. And if you’re wanting to look at porn, there’s a good chance you’re ONLY looking for porn at that moment.
I don’t want to be contrarian here, but I don’t think we do. The title should be more than enough to determine the kind of nsfw it is. I’m not saying we don’t need the feature, but I’ve never clicked a link thinking it would be porn and got gore or similar.
Porn doesn’t usually come from communities that aren’t porn communities so it isn’t really ever an issue. An I off base here?
Remember when /all showed nsfw/porn threads? That was fun/scary/interesting. I’m not saying one way or another which is “better”, but ultimately having individual options might be best.
For me the issue is, I want to be able to set a filter on /all where the porn isn’t rocking up but the combat footage etc is.
I just want the NSFW thumbnails to be blurred out. I’m on Kbin, and I distinctly remember checking a box that said it would do that, but it doesn’t do that. So I had to check the box to remove all NSFW from my feed, which I also don’t want, but don’t-want less than I don’t-want my boss or my SO to look over my shoulder and see boobs in the “random posts” sidebar.
On jerboa even if it’s blurred it is clear what the image is if it’s an ass or a crotch or tits or something involving a pet 🤔… I don’t want to see anything like that especially CP, blurred or not.
Maybe a better option would be some kind of uniform “avert your eyes” warning thumbnail. Probably would save a minuscule amount of server resources too.
That’s why I say we need a NSFW and a CONTENT_WARNING. The nice thing about content warning is that it’s generic enough to have multiple uses. It can cover gore and death, but it can also cover trigger warnings for sensitive spaces.
Perhaps in addition to allowing some communities to set themselves as NSFW by default, Kbin could also let communities set up tags that get automatically added to their posts? That way the porn ones could add #porn, the combat footage ones could add #gore, etc. “NSFW” would be a special tag that indicates that the contents should be blurred or otherwise hidden from accidental view, and the user could then decide whether they wanted to view it anyway based on the tags that were on it. Meanwhile something that was a perfectly innocent academic debate on the subject of porn could have the #porn tag but not the NSFW flag, and it’d be shown normally.
Oh, that alone sounds much better. That way, there’d be no way to get around tagging it and we’d know who any rebel tagless magazines are
This is actually good and the tag system is already in place, just need to implement it as a way to filter out (not filter in) content easily.
Thinking on it more, the only hiccup I can see is stuff like possible medical communities. They would be rarer than your basic morbid curiosity subs, but they do have both important discussion and definitely -nsfw photos. Not everything posted there would be gore, but every image likely would be, so it evades the proposed tag filter somewhat by being both on a regular basis.
Everything posted there can’t be automatically nsfw gore, but it can’t not be. It would have to be a hard and fast rule to manually tag them and if the mod doesn’t care, all bets are off on a lot of users becoming familiar with a lot of oozing meat.
For everything else outside of gore and porn I like browsing with image previews enabled and “all” instead of “subscribed,” and I want to see things that at least on Reddit were forced to be marked as nsfw. Maybe in the Fediverse NSFW is only limited to those things and I can turn it off, which I have, but I do not want to miss content from medium-adult posts just because of my preference to not jerk at all times of day.
Once a week, on r/all, there is a thread with a cryptic title like “Look at what he did” marked NSFW that is posted in r/videos.
Now tell me, is that now a person pissing on the street? Is someone dancing naked on their car’s roof? Or is it maybe a dude having an accident while skating and it shows his broken arm?
Boosted you because I didn’t think you deserved downvotes for that and the reputation system is messed up. And you have a good username.