I think this has negative effects on the threadiverse because it tends to keep user’s focus at lemmy.world and in general keeps users to stay in their bubbles
All is inundated with porn. Until they allow instance blocking for users, it’s incredibly hard to wade through to find new communities you’re interested in. Turning off NSFW in your settings isn’t a great solution because many of us still want to look at NSFW topics/discussions/memes.
To clarify, I don’t have an issue with porn. I just don’t want it on my front page. If I wanted to look at porn, there are plenty of sites dedicated to that already. I’m here for discussion, memes, and cool things.
Very true. As someone who likes the all feed as a decent way to find new communities and just generally see more content, it’s been a lot of using the “Block Instance” button, and I have NSFW turned off, there’s still an abundance of Lemmynsfw celeb type content. I won’t even consider enabling NSFW until we get that functionality.
That’s a good point. I hope it will change in the future though. On mastodon it also isn’t like that I think
This was also complained about in this post: https://www.androidauthority.com/reddit-alternatives-lemmy-3335429/ and probably mirrors experiences of other lemmy-users, especailly new-comers.
One paragraph reads: “Sure, there are categorization tools like Lemmy map that let you look up instances, but the Matrix-like grid will certainly not make things any easier for the average user. Even after logging into Lemmyworld, it took me a while to figure out that the local tab restricts all conversations to discussions on the Lemmyworld server. Switching the tab to all and catching up on discussions happening in the broader multiverse of Reddit alternatives is also possible. Still, there’s no visual identifier that guides you toward it.”
This was also my first impression of Lemmy and why I almost dropped it: I thought I could only interact with the communities on my server, which was very frustrating until I saw the filter for “all” and that I could join them just like that. Then it was fine.
