So let me start off by saying that I recognize that there was initially a genuine problem with people who didn’t want NSFW content being exposed to it.

Some of this was due to the fact that not all content was being correctly flagged as NSFW, and some of it was because a lot of users didn’t realize that individual users can choose to completely block an entire instance - which is not only a very easy and fast solution, but also does not require an all-or-nothing approach of defederating from NSFW instances.

A number of changes were made, but some of those lingering changes have meant that people who do want to see NSFW content are not because:

  1. Even having subscribed to several NSFW subs, they are effectively completely missing from my feed.

  2. Most NSFW thumbnails are blurred.

Both of these behaviors should not be occurring if a user has chosen in their settings to NOT hide NSFW content.

However, I will also say that the blurred state is something that deserves its own user setting (i.e. so that a user can choose to NOT hide NSFW, but still want them blurred or not) - preferably with the granularity to set it for various sub-types of NSFW (e.g. porn, gore, etc…).

  • dedale@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Personally I’m very happy with no porn and gore. But I think loss of user agency is what made internet the hell it is now, and alternatives should keep it in mind.
    Peertube does have some basic granularity: allow sensitive content or not, blur sensitive thumbnails or not.
    It’s work no doubt, but I doubt it’s the Herculean task some make it out to be.
    In the end it’s for Ernest to decide, I see no problem in making suggestions one way the other. And I don’t understand why you would.

    For what it’s worth, I haven’t browsed reddit in years except for specific technical stuff, you may be assuming a little bit too much based on a single comment.

    edit: thinking about it a little more, one case where I’d advocate banning sensitive content entirely is if it is used as a vector of attack against the instance, by posting illegal, or repulsive content to drive traffic away.