How is a fediverse user supposed to find communities? I can’t find a way to search across the fediverse, which pretty much kills the concept IMO. I was browsing All via Lemmy.world - Mlem - iOS and my feed is half anime porn, with some pictures depicting underage and others not blurred as NSFW.

Am I going about the fediverse all wrong? How do y’all deal with this? Right now the fediverse seems like a glitchy, overcomplicated 4chan.

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      Is nsfw specifically for porn or is it like Reddit where it was used for anything anyone might find offensive or inappropriate anywhere? I hesitate to block all nsfw content on the fediverse for fear of missing legitimate content.

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        From what I’ve seen NSFW tags are implemented similarly to reddit, however from browsing all and not having NSFW blocked the majority of the posts are porn/nudity.

        I’ve been blocking NSFW communities that I don’t want to see while browsing all which has been working fairly well.

        I like how the app Jerboa can handle NSFW, I have it set to show the post, but blur the image, which makes it easier to decide if it is something I want to look at or not.

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          It would be nice if we could have a tag specifically for nudity and/or porn.

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            There were a few times on r/stablediffusion where I clicked on something nsfw expecting nudity or something, and was instead greeted by extremely gory eldritch abominations.

            Having separate tags for boobs vs nsfl would indeed be nice

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              Like a subcategory for NSFW - nudity, extreme violence, porn, death (aka NSFL), etc.

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                Preferable all of the above. It’s not because I’m looking at anime boobs that I want to find myself looking at something like goro (if you don’t know what that is already, you probably won’t want to look it up).

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                  So… my curiosity got the best of me and I googled “goro” and it pulled up Mortal Kombat and I feel like I might have dodge a bullet thanks to the recent game release and opted to not dig any further. Also, anyone remember the heyday of r/spacedicks?

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          I guess my instance doesn’t federate because browsing all I don’t see anything nsfw. NSFW is on though.

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        Yes, you’re right. I personally leave NSFW toggled on and go ahead to manually block every single community I don’t want to see.

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          Think this is what i’m looking for… how are you blocking communities? thanks!

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            It depends on the client your using, but most the time you need to fill to the communities page then block it there

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            Visit the community on the web interface and click on the red button:

            Most mobile clients work the same. There’s usually a context menu within the community that you can pop up and where you’ll find that option.

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      Someone should create a masterlist of nsfw communities and create anotherscript that blocks them lul

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        Being able to block instances as a user (not defed but just hide all their communities) would be helpful

        Theres a few specific ones I am constantly blocking communities from (nsfw/porn, anime, furry, sports)

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            Update: https://github.com/Pdzly/lemmy-block-script

            Its a bit techy, but somewhat straightforward. Simply put in the communities names and you have to get your jwt_token from a request you made to lemmy ;)

            Added a nsfw community list to it. and i am open if you have a list of nsfw or bad communities

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    My current fix is just subscribing to a lot of communities and using all less. The other option is to uncheck nsfw but that of course blocks non nudity stuff too.

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      I do the same. Back on Reddit I always used r/all, but here that just doesn’t look to be viable at the moment.

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        Maybe they can do something similar to reddit which is a popular tab by default. Basically just all with the nsfw and fringe stuff removed.

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        I mean you weren’t using unfiltered all were you? You at least blocked the shit that bothered you the most?

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          Yeah of course, but with how messed up the filter options are on lemmy right now all sorts of stuff show up. At least with r/all it had to be popular.

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    It won’t be like this forever, simply growing pains of a brand new rapidly growing platform.

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      Do you use an app to browse kbin on ios? I couldn’t get wefwef to take my Kbin account.

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        On iOS, you can just use Safari, and “add kbin to home screen.” This creates a shortcut to kbin on your home screen, but it also allows you to use kbin like an app. The website has an amazing UI through safari that feels like a native app you purchased in the App Store. I’ll attach a screenshot to this comment for you to see.

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          Thank you — this is what I’ve been doing for the past couple of days. I still think there’s a need for an app… this browser stuff is glitchy. It logs me out automatically, I can’t add multiple accounts, my keyboard loads all funky sometimes, and media needs to be manually expanded.

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    Being able to block entire instances is a feature that I’m surprised isn’t in the works. It would be simpler to block 2 instances than to block a hundred communities.

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      It is on kbin. Go to kbin.social/d/[instanceaddress], then in the righthand column is a block symbol, exactly like blocking a magazine or a user

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    I’ve been using Connect for Lemmy for a few days now and it helped me a lot with finding instances I wanted to follow.

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    Thanks all for the search suggestions! Will play around with them when I get some free time.

    Does anybody know a good way to search for a community within an instance? Let’s say i find c/fake community on a non-world Lemmy instance. How do I pull that up from my account on Lemmy.World so i can subscribe to it?

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      For most you just search on lemmy.world and communities on other instances show up.

      Otherwise use !community@instance to find something.

      Actually, just enter the url of the community in search… then it should find it and then you subscribe in the sidebar.

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    Personally I just use the search function at the top of the website or in Memmy to look for keywords and hope for a match.

    Also as others have said you can block NSFW stuff which should help.

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    @Doxix Honestly just moving to a different instance instead of lemmy.world should do it; many of them do not federate with NSFW instances or if they do they federate with a limited selection of them. I haven’t checked in awhile, but when I was looking for what Kbin/Lemmy instance to join lemmy.world federates with everything except for two instances, which is asking for trouble.