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  • The real question is if there is any benefit at all from federating content that is consumed in very different contexts at all. I mean even if you filter it down to exactly the content you prefer, do you really want your porn consumption interrupted by the latest political news in the same feed? Even if you are interested in both types of content you might not want it at literally the same time.

    Similar arguments could also be made for instances meant for children heavily limiting their federation of course to avoid contact with material not meant to be seen by children (news and porn alike).




  • As mentioned in my post above, I do not think most NSFW content is actually like that, where the same set of users considers the same content to be undesirable.

    It might certainly be a bit better than the current state of affairs but then you also need support across the fediverse for the flags you describe so it will take a while to spread and would still only allow the moderator of the community and maybe the instance admin of that community to control what is seen in the general feed.



  • I have been thinking about the whole tagging problem a bit in the last few days and I feel NSFW or even multiple levels of that are not really going to be enough.

    For almost any given kink and even just gender and body types or parts displayed there are going to be users who are looking for that content, users who can take it or leave it, users who do not want to see that content in their feed, users who might get into legal trouble if someone sees it on their screen, users and instances who might get into legal trouble if they download that content,…

    And of course which user is in which group for any given type of content varies by their preferences, jurisdiction or even where they currently are (home, in public,…).

    So I think content will need to be tagged in some way with the type of content and instances and users will need to have configurable filter rules, possibly even multiple rulesets to switch between for home and public.

    It is probably not sensible to try to make one global set of possible tags for a federated system like Lemmy.

    There might also be some other non-kinky concerns that could be integrated into a filter system like that like text VS audio vs video,… or languages or content warnings for discussions of sensitive topics.

    For the actual tagging system it might be useful to look at other websites like f-list, e-hentai or the various picture hosting sites with tagging. Personally I think something with tag pairs or tuples might be useful in a porn context since a lot of kink preferences are gender specific (e.g. people might like anal with a female recipient but not with a male one or vice versa).

    Another issue is, of course, who is allowed to add, modify, or move tags and if communities will have a default set of tags for their posts. Tags might also need a flag to display content tagged with it by default or not.

    I think I rambled on long enough but I thought some discussion on the topic could be useful, especially while there are few resources to implement things and considering it would be good to get it right on the first try.