There is a big difference between mild NSFW and full on porno. Suppose there is a News story with photo/video but it’s a little bit graphic or violent. Nobody is jacking off to that. Maybe shouldn’t view it at work, but in the library is fine.

Maybe it’s a funny meme pic but there’s a nip slip situation going on. No biggy; it should probably be tagged NSFW. Probably don’t want it showing up at actual work. But I want to enable this kind of content away from work without a bunch of actual porn showing up in my feed.

There should be a porn tag. It’s not the same as NSFW.

EDIT: The two main devs have done some amazing work here, but as I understand it they are totally booked for the foreseeable future. My rust chops aren’t quite up to snuff (yet) and my frontend chops are non-existent, so it might be a quite while before I’m up to speed enough to make a meaningful contribution. In the meantime just thought I’d point out the issue.

  • Daniel Jackson
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    I’m trying to create a healthy porn community on lemmy. And the hostility of lemmy towards it is worrisome in my opinion. People are calling for de-federating lemmynsfw, people file false reports on my NSFW-only communities, the majority of instances ban porn,…

    IMHO, there should be only two tags “NSFW”, “NSFL”. (= Not Safe For Life, meaning gore) There was this running-joke on reddit last year “when I was younger ‘NSFW’ on /r/all meant boobs, now it’s most likely a video of a bomb being dropped from a drone blowing up russian soldiers.

    I don’t think we should rate the degree of NSFW or NSFL. Where is the line? I assume a topless lady is NSFW, not porn. But is a fully nude woman or man NSFW, or porn? If it’s still “just” NSFW, what about two fully naked men holding each other penises? Or a woman on her knees looking at a penis without touching it, with her mouse open? This is a very fine line.

    I’m in favour of most european broadcasting laws: visible nipples are fine as long as they’re not sexuality, but “16” or “18” rating is recommended. Visible anus, vulva or penis makes “18/Unrated” mandatory, whether there is intercourse or not.

    I would translate this to lemmy to “anything with nipples, anus, vulva or penis visible is NSFW, regardless of intercourse” No grading of “NSFW” or “porn.”

    • @[email protected]
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      From what I see, that specific post was only because it sounded like lemmynsfw would allow loli. For me the biggest issue is that the porn would occasionally flood my front page because of that one bug (that got fixed), I really don’t want to see porn when I’m just browsing (but I have nothing against it existing on Lemmy).

      For me what makes something porn would be the intent: is it made/shared for sexual arousal. Something can be porn without any nudity, and you can have any amount of nudity without it being porn.

      • @[email protected]
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        121 year ago

        Exactly. It is the intent behind the content. Full nudity does not equal porn. Covered sexual organs does not mean it is not porn.

    • @[email protected]
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      The biggest issue I have with defederating is that you basically exclude every member of that instance from discussion on other instances even when they keep their nsfw post completely within their own instance.

      If I’m on Instance A that defederated Instance B because it’s NSFW friendly, then I also can’t see comments from members of Instance B in completely unrelated comunities on other Instances.

    • @obesity52OP
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      Don’t get me wrong, I think there should be porn on lemmy. It’s great. I just don’t want to get kicked out of the library. Or have a situation where I’m on the train/bus and some toddler is in the seat behind me looking over my shoulder. Edit: yeah probably should block any nsfw in the latter scenario

    • @TheAmishMan
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      Exactly this. Regardless if it’s softcore or hardcore, porn or lewd is nsfw. I don’t mind that stuff at home, but even blurred out images I don’t want my coworkers walking by.

      NSFL stuff I generally never want to see, at least not as someone I randomly scroll by

    • @[email protected]
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      I agree that the de-federation and attitude is worrysome, but I disagree on your stance towards more tags. Servers that disallow NSFW now, might choose to allow NSFW but not porn. Servers that allow NSFW now, are likely to keep allowing both. Servers just don’t want to deal with liability and weird protocol quirks showing people stuff they don’t want, so they’ll ban any category that’s likely to include stuff they don’t want. More fine-grained tagging means they can ban a smaller selection of things.

      I’m all for various kinds of tags to indicate why someone might not want to view certain content.

    • GunnarRunnar
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      The calls for defed was because there was some talk that you allow drawn underage content? That’s not people being hostile towards porn, it’s being hostile towards creepy predatory behavior.

    • @SheeEttin
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      I assume a topless lady is NSFW, not porn. But is a fully nude woman or man NSFW, or porn?

      Why would more nudity be less nsfw?

      If you could get in trouble for having it up on your screen at most workplaces, it’s probably nsfw.

      • Daniel Jackson
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        I assume a topless lady is NSFW, not porn. But is a fully nude woman or man NSFW, or porn?

        Why would more nudity be less nsfw?

        My question is “is more nudity NSFW or porn?” It’s definitely NSFW, but is it porn?

        • @SheeEttin
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          I don’t see how that matters.

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    Agreed. I don’t want all that mildly NSFW content when I’m scrolling porn.

  • Unaware7013
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    I would rather see gore have its own tag before porno, personally. I don’t mind getting smut in my feed, but I’d rather not see a corpse/someone die in the same feed/category as nudity.

    Honestly, multiple nsfw categories would be great

      • @SheeEttin
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        Then OP’s problem is already solved. NSFW means porn, NSFL means gore.

        • @[email protected]
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          I think his point was that there is a kind of lighter type of NSFW, lighter than porn. NQSFW Not Quite Safe For Work

          • @DrTeeth
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            RFW. Risqué For Work?

          • @SheeEttin
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            If it’s NSFW but not porn, it’s still NSFW. NQSFW is still NSFW.

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        Interesting, I’m still pretty new here, and I’ve only seen nsfw so far

  • terribleplan
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    Mastodon has a system of user-definable Content Warnings that hide the rest of the post and any media attached. Due to just how broad NSFW can be something like this may be a good idea. Maybe you’re ok with nudity, but not porn. Maybe you’re ok with porn but not (certain act/fetish/whatever). Maybe you’re ok with violence, but not dead bodies. Lots to think about there. Defining all of these in advance or trying to come up with categories such that it is actually useful to everyone sounds like a path to madness and fetishes you never even knew existed.

    These can also be used for things that aren’t necessarily NSFW, but also uncomfortable topics such as “miscarriage”, “cheating”, or even just “spoilers for <show>”. They’re pretty versatile.

    • @obesity52OP
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      I didn’t know that about Mastodon. That sounds pretty cool!

    • @guyman
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      I think being able to block entire instances as users will solve this issue.

      • terribleplan
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        141 year ago

        Sorry, but I don’t see how blocking an instance solves the inability of people to tag sensitive but non-NSFW content and the inability to explain why the content could be considered NSFW. Could you explain your thought a bit more?

        • Redex
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          I think he’s talking about blocking just porn in general. In that case you could get rid of 95% of it by just blocking lemmynsfw.com.

  • @DeriHunter
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    I think this is the most important feature I’m missing. I want to see NSFW stuff but not porn

    • WheresYourShoe
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      I agree. There’s a lot of content that’s not appropriate for work, but that doesn’t mean it’s sexual at all. That’s the stuff in interested in.

    • @obesity52OP
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      Lol you definitely got the color scheme “nailed” down

    • Daniel Jackson
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      Where is the line between NSFW and XXX?

      Nudity? Which nudity? Are nipples NSFW but vulva is XXX?

      Multiple people being nude at the same? A photo of a guy holding his penis to masturbate is NSFW, but a photo of a nudist beach is XXX?

      Sexual contact? A person is kneeling in front of a penis with their mouth open it’s NSFW? But as soon as they hold it, it’s XXX?

      • @[email protected]
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        NSFW = nipple.

        XXX = nipple with cum on it.

        GORE = nipple on the floor, separated from its human.

        It’s pretty simple bro.

          • @[email protected]
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            My friend, you’ve missed the most important question:

            what about a nipple on the floor with cum on it?

            • @minimar
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              What about cum in the shape of a nipple currently in the air towards a seperated nipple?

            • Pennomi
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              The tags don’t need to be mutually exclusive!

        • Pennomi
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          We might as well go all in on content warnings, like in TV: this post is TV-14 DLSV (Dialog, Language, Sex, Violence)

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    I know I’m late to the game commenting in here, but I think it’s important to distinguish whether we’re talking about people merely adding descriptors to their NSFW posts or whether we’re talking about a whole tagging system being implemented into the Lemmy protocol. Adding a full fledged tagging system to Lemmy similar to Mastodon would be a pretty big undertaking. But anything short of that would feel like a kludgey, bolted-on solution. The NSFW flag + user added descriptors is the only way for users to go about it for now.

    I do think a conversation about adding tags into Lemmy is worthwhile because tags could potentially allow for a lot of neat things. E.g. we might eventually be able to start making custom feeds by aggregating content from multiple similar communities across instances. It would also let users filter tags they don’t want to see at all (regardless of whether it’s NSFW) or don’t want to see by default (i.e. blur the images until they’re selected). But I know the Lemmy devs probably don’t want it to end up looking like a Reddit/Mastodon hybrid or just become kbin, so this is something they’ll consider carefully. I think right now they’re rightly focused on database and federation performance and the broader dev community is helping with more immediate needs like spam account mitigation. They’ve gotta stop the bleeding and get a solid foundation established before building major changes like a full fledged tagging system.

  • Meldrik
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    You just look at the community name to determine what is hiding under the NSFW tag.

  • NetHandle
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    I personally like the roulette every time I make a risky click. Am I going to get some horrific medical gore that doctors use to desensitize themselves, or am I going to get cock and ball torture, maybe it’s a sports illustrated calendar girl, or bread nailed to a tree. Who knows? It’s the internet. A terrible place where you can’t trust someone didn’t intentionally mislabel something just to trick you into watching Rick Astley busting some sick dance moves to a catchy song.
    I suppose they could make differentiating nsfw types an optional thing though.

  • Emi
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    Simple, [Content Warning Tag]-(User Description Of Content Warning)

  • FaceDeer
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    I’m thinking that having a generic “NSFW” flag and then a bunch of different tags you could use as modifiers would be better. “NSFW” would trigger the “blur/hide/whatever this” code, and you could filter based on #porn, #gore, #semprini, whatever, for the specific kind of stuff you’re interested in/not interested in.

      • bazsy
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        Just a UX nitpick: a drop down is usally for a single choice question but this should be multiple choice to avoid unintentional mislabeling.

        • @XanXic
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          This kind of solves the issue of cross content as well. I may be okay with seeing porn, but I don’t want to see the like gore porn. So something tagged gore, and nudity can just be hidden from me thanks to me blocking anything tagged gore.

      • @XanXic
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        Someone should write up the feature as described and explain why this particular implementation solves issues people are having as a pull request on the repo. This would be much easier to implement than a custom tagging feature like others are asking for. Like yeah a custom tagging feature would be cool but that’s a ton of work and wouldn’t show up for quite a while.

  • @T156
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    NSFW category tags would be pretty handy.

    I’m rather partial to how Twitter does it currently, by letting users choose a set of NSFW categories, from a generic “sensitive content” tag, a violence/gore tag, and/or a nudity/sexual content tag.

    Maybe they could be implemented as part of a wider post tagging system?

  • @sorenant
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    I wonder if there’s a way to block porn on main feed but keep a side one for when I want to see it. I like me a nice ass, but its awkward to have one shoved when I just want to check news and see prequel memes.

    • terribleplan
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      I mean, people had “alt” and “throwaway” accounts on that other site for just such occasions. Not sure how good support for account switching is in any of the apps. It would also be an opportunity to explore another instance if you wanted (especially if your instance bans/restricts such things).

      • @sorenant
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        Good idea. I think switching accounts in Jerboa is pretty easy so I might end up doing that.