I just made an account in bluesky. And was greeted by lots of anime tits. Nothing against people’s preferences, but is this how businesses nowadays greet new customers? I mean, they are trying to build a twitter alternative, aren’t they?
Welcome to the internet! Half my lemmy community blocklist is to keep cartoon titties off my feed.
You should publish that list for … Um… research purposes.
My understanding – I’ve never used it – is that Bluesky uses some sort of “curated feed” list. The idea, from what I gathered, is that some person (or people?) could create a list of stuff and then people subscribe to it. Seemed like an interesting approach, since it’s a route to improve personalizing content relative to, say, Reddit. Originally, Reddit intended to run off a recommendation system, but that kind of fell by the wayside in the first few years.
I’ve wondered how practical it would be to have people publish feeds, then take into account one’s voting behavior and how it reflects feed content to help do recommendations. Can’t just score a feed by aligned posts – otherwise, it’d be trivially-gameable you could have people spamming by creating feeds and including popular things, and then also including some spam item. But I could imagine that being the foundation for something that does a good job of recommending stuff.
Begone foreign languages I do not speak and penises I don’t want to see.
Ohh, I may have to create a bluesky login after all 🌚
Best covert promo ever.
- It’s not exactly a business
- Furries keep the Internet running, annoy them at your own peril
- in general, bsky is queer as fuck. That is a feature.
- Bluesky is a platform where, like any other social platform, businesses can try to establish themselves to better communicate with and to become more approachable to customers. What OP is asking is why a business would want to make a Bluesky account if Bluesky has NSFW stuff like anime porn front and center (and the problem doesn’t seem to be whether there is porn in Bluesky, but it’s more about it being everywhere you look when creating an account)
- The furry and anime community are not the same and don’t overlap as much as people think. The anime community is more about Japanese culture and animated Japanese TV shows and films, while the furry community only really care about stuff related with anthropomorphic animals. There are some anthropomorphic characters in anime like girls with cat ears, but they barely look alike fursonas.
- Whenever I think of people who would like to see anime tits, I think of young and mostly virgin straight (and maybe also bi?) dudes, not exactly a diverse community as LGBT+.
- Businesses can stay away if they want.
- I know. Someone else brought up furries.
- I know. That is an unrelated point. Bsky is gay as fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck. That’s how we like it.
I don’t want bluesky to be gay because my fellow gays should be supporting a FLOSS platform like mastadon.
Corpo shit is for the straights.
Corpo shit is for the straights.
Are you gatekeeping shilling? That’s low man.
I’d just like to think we’re collectively more tasteful than that is all.
(Even if it isn’t true :p)
I suggest you bring that up at the next meeting.
I figured I’d wait til the next session of homo-congress.
Bro that’s just the internet. When I left Reddit I had over a thousand anime subs blocked. Took me weeks of blocking them when I first got here last year. Twitter wasn’t as bad for me since I never look at the curated right wing propaganda TL and only look at who I follow which is all mostly sports beat writers and hardcore sports fans.
Could you even make a more obvious ad for Bluesky?
Hopefully this link shared correctly, but I found that furries are all over the place there. And while I don’t care that they want to be furries, I don’t really want to see it all over.
Anyway, this moderation list has helped a lot in filtering out a lot of that type of post and has made my experience a lot better.
It’s a scary looking link, but I promise I just hit the share button from the app. This list is called “Ultimate Furry Mute”
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ekvhqkjiqocjabzxdckyh7oj/lists/3k6y4nbg3bo2f
Edit: and then this one is the same idea, just a different moderation list
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:zxb6pe4wetisrbvsjniqsllr/lists/3k3achhhenb2l
I found that furries are all over the place there.
I have some unfortunate news for you about this place then…
There’s two or three instances where all the smut comes from, if you block those, it really cleans out your feed.
I honestly don’t see a lot of furry stuff here in my feed or server. Or even in All when I browse that from time to time.
Yeah, there’s not much content, but I’ve found a lot of fans hanging around here, much more so than say, Reddit or other mainstream sites. Kinda like how Linux users are over-represented here. There’s a lot of overlap with furries and techies. I can spot a furry avatar/username from a mile away.
And that, to me, is fine. People can be furries or like furries. I’m OK with that.
On Bluesky, however, there is/was a ton of furry content being posted, and not just drawings or simple photos. I sadly know what a furry, wolf penis looks like by just scrolling through the app. So the moderation lists are great.
That’s unfortunate and uncalled for on a public forum where people didn’t ask to see it right away. Sorry you had to see that.
I appreciate that.
I mean, I’m not offended or anything. But I just don’t have any NEED to see that stuff when I’m just checking to see what people are talking about.
That you know of. Your granddad could be a furry—you’ve just never asked the right questions.
Dude I browse the /r/all of Lemmy and have to filter out the NSFW because it is all just too much.
Any social platform without corporate influence will be filled with porn. After all…
True. On lemmy I have a long blocklist full of anime stuff.
Damn are there that many anime related communities on Lemmy? I feel like the vast majority would be instance specific e.g ani.social and pawb.social but nobody’s really browsing those if you aren’t looking for anime stuff
If you’re particularly bored and get doomscrolling /c/all, you’ll get into the various anime subs eventually. You know you’ve gone too long when it’s nothing but anime shit.
If you doomscroll c/all, you need some hobbies. Unless political argument is your hobby
Not going to argue with that at all.
Well, let’s say I haven’t figured out how to block whole instances, or maybe it was not possible when I made my first Lemmy account. But on the anime instances there is like a new community every week or so.
I browse all a lot to look for interesting new communities. Every now and then I come across a new community from ani.social, the NSFW instance or something, and on Voyager I can’t seem to block entire instances. I also don’t know if there’s a way to filter only the communities without blocking the users too, but as it stands, I may have to look for another app to block the instances entirely.
I mean, they are trying to build a twitter alternative, aren’t they?
Yes, exactly
That just sounds like they need better NSFW tagging and enforcement of NSFW tags.
There was a recent change in Twitter’s posting policies. They now have decided that any art posted to twitter, twitter owns. There is an on going exodus of artists who decided on bluesky as their new homes. There might be algo bias going on from the influx.
I wasn’t even greeted by tits,maaaan
I mean, there’s plenty of anime pornography on the Threadiverse too. It’s just that sopuli.xyz, your home instance, isn’t federated with a number of hosts (and you may not be viewing its “all” feed).
Look at the “Blocked instances” tab. You’ve got stuff like:
https://kbin.burggit.moe/ (which I can’t seem to reach due to some sort of TLS issue, but burggit.moe proper has “Free expression, including the Loli/Shota/Cub variety, are welcome here!”, and I assume that this is a gateway to the same material). I definitely remember that burggit.moe used to deal with consentual-nonconsentual material and underage anime material, because it caused lemmynsfw.com to defederate from them.
https://ac.akirin.xyz/ I don’t know what content they truck in, and their front page doesn’t indicate it, but it looks like the scrolling URLs in the bottom contain a bunch of links to various Fediverse hosts that deal in underage anime porn, and the user icons seem to all be anime girls, so I’m assuming that that might be their thing.
Not going to do a complete list of the blocked instances there, just pointing out that even if you look at your “all” feed on sopuli.xyz, it might not be representative of the Threadiverse as an aggregate.
I can confirm that All on Sopuli is regularly inundated by suggestive (but usually not outright pornographic) anime pics. Most of these are the “Moe” communities, but there are a handful that specific to the franchise the characters are from.
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I truly do not understand this place one bit.
Mastodon is better because it’s federated. I’d never heard of bluesky but I just looked it up(no account even) and it appears that you are correct, it is filled with anime porn.
Yes. Full of anime both porn and non porn varieties. Source - just signed up 5 minutes ago after reading about the twitter exodus yesterday. I never liked twitter and never used it. Was always a redditor. But bluesky content is all anime titties.
So was twitter, at least back when it was Twitter before Mr idiot face took over.
A lot of content creators were on Twitter because, especially after the tumbler thing, it became the one place they could promote their content. Obviously they couldn’t distribute it on Twitter but it was a good place for advertising themselves. So it’s not all that surprising that those people have moved over to the new alternative. They go where the audience goes.
A few years ago mastodon seemed to be awash with bots posting… young scantily clad anime girls.
Whether or not you find it offensive, it’s not really ideal for building a community around and it’s a shame admins just let it go.
