Should half naked pictures of anime characters be marked NSFW on Lemmy? - eviltoast

I’m talking about this sort of thing. Like clearly I wouldn’t want someone to see that on my phone in the office or when I’m sat on a bus.

However there seems be a lot of these that aren’t filtered out by nsfw settings, when a similar picture of a woman would be, so it seems this is a deliberate feature I might not be understanding.

Discuss.

  • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    How can we be in the Fediverse and still have to fucking repeat this over and over.

    Curate your feed

    This isn’t an algorithmic driven platform. If you want to see what you’ll like, you gotta be proactive. Complaining about anime pictures from an anime community is just dumb.

    • atrielienz@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      I curate my feed. However because of the lack of an algorithm I don’t get suggestions. This means that I (and likely others) scroll through the everything feed repeatedly.

      But I’ll do you one better. Lemmy doesn’t prevent users under the age of 18 from joining so long as they are 13 or older (just like other platforms). There’s a reason that most if not all websites curate for NSFW content, and it’s to make what the public can view with or without an account safe for children who are likely visiting those sites. That’s the reason Facebook won’t let you post half nude photos publicly. It’s the reason Reddit has NSFW tags. You’re preaching to the choir as far as users curating their content. NSFW tagging is literally a tool to use to curate the content you see. If your argument is that posters have no responsibility for what content they post that’s just logically wrong. No laws work that way. It’s literally why platforms aren’t being held liable for the misinformation spread by their users. I’m not complaining about random anime lewds. I’m pointing out that they are not safe for work. So they should be labeled as such since that is the status quo for not safe for work content. In the same way that a lot of content related to the war in Ukraine and the conflict in Palestine are labeled that way.

      If you’re gonna be stuck on what the user should be doing rather than treating all of these items the same as far as what they are then you’re gonna have a bad time because I’m not entertaining that. I curate my feed and I don’t scroll the Everything feed at work, but that doesn’t mean I think other users shouldn’t be able to.

    • kaffiene@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      Doesn’t work though. I have blocked communities that produce a lot of nsfw material but they keep popping up It’s wackamole

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      5 months ago

      I don’t think anyone in this thread is complaining about its existence on lemmy at all.

      Some people are suggesting that it should be marked as NSFW. If you don’t want to use NSFW tagging, that’s great, you be you and turn it all off in your settings, but please don’t shout at people who do want to use the NSFW tagging to help them curate their feed.

      If you disagree that this kind of image should be classified as NSFW because you want to use lemmy at work to view this kind of image but blur things that feature more explicit images, that’s fine. and you could express that calmly and positively, but shouting in the thread at people using a lemmy feature for its designed purpose seems like a really over the top reaction to me, particularly since the NSFW features are all completely optional for you.

      • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        Implicitly, there is only one solution of puritanical situations and that’s to curate you feed.

        Is a post about how you should unionize NSFW in this strange argument? Who knows. Do you live somewhere that showing ankles is only made as a prurient interest? Good luck friend!

        If you scroll though the all feed enough, you’re going to find plenty of things that aren’t socially acceptable in your own mind.

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          5 months ago

          But I’d like the Not Suitable For Work feature to filter posts that are not suitable for work. It’s curation, just a different way to your preferred way. If you don’t want to use the NSFW features, just turn them off. No need to be cross about it. It’s in settings.

          (Your point about ankles is badly made, in my view. I think you were arguing the point that because there’s no objective speed that separates slow from fast, there’s no difference between slow and fast, but that doesn’t make sense in the real world. It might be hard to judge sometimes, but that doesn’t mean I should be shouted at for advocating an opinion on voluntary speed limits!)