I’ve been using a 3rd party client to access posts on Lemmy. I loved the experience back when Reddit allowed 3rd party apps. But I felt the feed was a bit…one sided.
I figured it was just because I was new to Lemmy, but then I sorted posts by New.
Nothing but trans anime porn. It’s like the only people that came to Lemmy were the people that got kicked out of Reddit circles because all they could think about was trans anime porn.
Maybe I signed up on the wrong instance? But I don’t think that’s the problem.
How are so many people trying to treat Lemmy as a balanced alternative to Reddit?
What the fuck?!
OP’s comment history is full of antagonism and bad takes. So many of their comments have exclamation points!!! I have a feeling they’re a bit lost on things and/or they don’t want to admit to the means by which they are seeing this content that they claim to be repulsed by. Blocking is free, and I suggest doing to major sources of bad vibes.
I make liberal use if the Lemmy feature of blocking users/communities/instances.
I noticed the same thing as you—so much kinky shit when browsing All. I mostly don’t care what gets people off but I don’t need to see it in my feed. Eventually, I found that it was easiest to block entire instances where that stuff is prevalent. It’s not like you’ll miss anything important.
Same with communities and users. If I know a community isn’t going to interest me, I block it from All. If a user bothers me enough that I recognize the name, I block them.
It’s just better this way. You’re not missing much by blocking. Your time and attention is better spent on the things that matter to you.
Does lemmy have a block limit? Reddit does. I hit it.
Honestly, it’s kind of obnoxious that you’re inundated with porn by default in “all”. I mean, it’s fine if people are into that, but it’s not necessarily what every user wants to deal with blocking when the are a new user. Some might just erroneously assume the whole platform is just a porn site and leave if that isn’t what they want. I have blocked a shitton of porn communities because I’m not interested in that, but there are a hell of a lot of them. I’m glad instance blocking became a thing because prior to that I had a zillion communities blocked.
Would just nice for the default to be different is all. I get why some people are immediately super turned off by using Lemmy because of stuff like that.
Again, I’m not trying to say porn is necessarily bad, but it’s a bit jarring when that’s not what you came here for and when it’s not what the platform is “advertised” as. It’s like if Grandma tries to join Facebook to stay connected to people but when she first logs in there’s just porn all over her feed. Obviously that doesn’t happen there. I’m just trying to paint a picture.
I have yet to see any anime porn. True story. I don’t seek it out, so there could be that. I also hate memes, believe it or not. They like…fuck with my brain. So I try to stay away from them. PieFed is best for this kind of stuff. I made an account just to try to filter out more. Maybe check it out? Reddit sucks shit, by the by. So you know, I think in this situation having nothing might be better than having to be on either a) Reddit or b) Seeing a bunch of stuff you don’t want.
Have your main account set to filter out NSFW to avoid that content. Also, there is absolutely no shortage of that content on reddit lmao. At least when I was there anyway.
There was a yiff.net or something instance that I had to block when I first joined. It wasn’t really that popular I think it just had bots posting furry stuff from deviantart. It’s not that hard to clean up your feed.
I’ll be completely honest, i have read a decent number of people say they have the same issue with Lemmy, tons and tons of porn.
My experience has been vastly different. I occasionally have some nudes posts pop up but only about once a month at most. It very rarely is more than top less and is never hard-core or kinky.
I don’t know what I did to seemingly make my experience this way.
Not my experience either, but then I don’t go looking for sub par stuff when there’s plenty of good around and I choose my 3rd party apps wisely.
Mine isn’t that way at all. My feed is always set to “All”, and it’s a diverse range of discussions.
I’ve thought about blocking the instance you’re on. Lots of garbage from that instance.
You must be using the All Trans Anime Porn All the Time app.
I just use Firefox for Android and sort by New by default and I don’t recall seeing any trans anime porn. Ever.
You must be using the All Trans Anime Porn All the Time app.
Certified ATAPAtTApp moment
Not sure what’s up with your feed, but mine is… not that.
It’s heavily dependent on your instance. It kinda sucks to be honest sometimes.
All I can suggest is making liberal use of the block community function.
Why the down votes on this lol
Because I’m kinda infamous here, I’m one of like 3 conservatives here and I have a habit of browsing /all.
People like to downvote everything I say, I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s botted at this point
Mfw I’m finding out that the gay furry instance that is my home instance has less porn than ops instance
Your feed is what you click on OP….
OP’s “karma”/reputation score, visible from Mbin instances, is at -1435. I think it’s safe to assume that OP does not intend to be taken seriously.
