I seriously. I’m for realiously. I got like 8 different furry subs in my block list and filtered out terms like ‘yiff’ etc. You’d think the algorithm would have picked up that I’m not interested in that shit but I still can’t scroll a half hour without a wolf boner adorning my screen.
I know I can simply block all NSFW content but that’d just be throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
There is no algorithm.
Are you looking at the feed of everything that is posted on your instance?
Technically, “show all posts in reverse chronological order” is an algorithm :P
(I know what you mean, and I agree overall, but I couldn’t resist the silly nitpick about semantics!)
Since we are nitpicking: “show all posts in reverse chronological order” is not an algorithm, it’s a description of an outcome of an algorithm. The algorithm is the specific steps the computer needs to take to make it so. There can be different algorithms that sort posts chronological, all with the same outcome.
Ha, a nitpick on the nitpick! Spot on!
No no no! The “show all posts in reverse chronological order” cannot be a description of an outcome; it is phrased as a request or a command. The outcome description would be “posts get shown in reverse chronological order”! Also there is no way to show all posts, that’s not really possible with finite resources.
Unless you were thinking of an algorithm that prints out text “show all posts in reverse chronological order”, then you are completely right in that being the outcome.
Theres no algorithm lol
Welcome to the old internet.
There is no algorithm. Lemmy doesn’t “figure out” anything.
There is lots of furry porn.
We love you.
Only 8? Rookie numbers there mate.
How do you get all the furry porn? I’ve been here for two years and barely see any.
TIL I need to sub to a whole instance. Cheers OP.
… unzip
There is no “algorithm” in the common use of the word - there is no machine learning black box running what you see, if you can read source code you can see exactly what it’s doing: see the listing types, and how those types are used and sorted. Either you’ve subscribed to a furry community (I’m assuming not if you’re complaining about it), or you’re on all and seeing the content because other users are upvoting it.
The site is filled with furry porn because the internet is filled with porn and this site is filled with furries.
Where are you seeing all this furry porn? Asking for a friend, who wants to see more furry porn.
Because IT people run Lemmy, and IT people are surprisingly often furries.
Also there is no “algorithm” in the way people usually mean it. For better or worse, there is just a few basic ways of sorting your feed.
Finally, in my entire 3 years on here, I’ve never seen any NSFW furry stuff. Now, I rarely ever use the global feed, and my instance isn’t a general purpose mega-instance, so that probably plays a large part in it.
I have no idea what youre talking about. I havent seen a single furry porn since I joined like a year ago…
Edit: 2 years ago
No algorithm here, so that’s why nothing is changing if you are not actively getting rid of it. But I’ still wondering why I don’t have the same issue. Barely see any porn at all here, even when using the “All” filter. I can’t believe no one on my instance is looking at porn at all, so there should be some in all.
Conspiracy: there is an algorithm and it’s working as intended. Op is just in denial.
Some instances block stuff like that so you don’t need to block it yourself. Does also mean you can’t opt in while using that instance though.
I thought so too! But I checked the “instances” link on the bottom of my instance and pawb.social and yiffit.net (to just use OPs problem as an example) are on the linked list and not on the blocked one.
So… pretty puzzled about how OP is showered by porn.
Subscribe to groups that interest you, block groups, instances and users annoying you. Stick to your subscribed feed.
I ended up creating an account just to block communities/users. At the time there was a poster posting to his own instance that was federated with lemmy.world, and he was reposting nothing but reddit posts, and the volume was such that they had to go. With no algorithm there’s no way to just see subscribed stuff without losing out on discovering new things.
And just a tip, Lemmy will let you export (to JSON) your configuration options to include who you’ve blocked.
I got it all blocked and then someone spun up like 30 AI porn communities and I had to block those too…
I feel like sisyphus on this site. Especially with that guy who has 1 million different accounts all on different instances but with the same name.
And weirdly, you have to be more specific than that!
And more importantly, where can I find it
