When viewing the instance list in Lemmy Explorer, enabling the Hide NSFW option hides 490 of the 567 listed instances. On the reduced list of 77 instances, feddit.cl, feddit.uk, and aussie.zone are listed as the largest SFW instances.

Unless I’m misunderstanding how the NSFW instance sorting function works, it seems to be a mistake for so many instances, including lemmy.world, lemm.ee, and most other major instances, to be categorized as NSFW.

  • @CreatureSurviveM
    2•4 days ago

    This is mostly out of my control. The NSFW filter is not exactly as it seems. Any community or instance that allows NSFW posts is considered a NSFW subject by Lemmy Explorer. This means that even a casual community could be marked NSFW if it allows mature content of any kind. It would be nice if there was some more refined way of filtering this, but as it stands, there is not any API that detects NSFW by content rather than setting.