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.
Is there? I never noticed. I never blocked anything, but then again, I only see what I subscribe to.
Which is the second point: there isn’t an algorithm. No need to block anything, just pick what you do want to subscribe to and ignore the rest.
Filtering your feed isn’t anybody’s job but yours. If you want to be spoonfed and controlled, that’s what big tech does.
And more importantly, where can I find it
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.
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!
I’m also a little annoyed by the fact that people use “algorithm” to refer to a “recommendation system” for social media. “Recommendation system” is really the term that one should use, and on top of that, one should really say that the system as a whole is using a heuristic to come up with the best-possible content rather than an algorithm.
…and looking at the Wikipedia page for “algorithm”, apparently they even explicitly point this out:
In contrast, a heuristic is an approach to solving problems without well-defined correct or optimal results.[3] For example, although social media recommender systems are commonly called “algorithms”, they actually rely on heuristics as there is no truly “correct” recommendation.
It’s probably not going away, since it’s entered popular usage, but it really isn’t a correct use of the computer science terminology.
It’s kinda like someone decided to start calling the cylinders in a car’s engine “the metal thing”…which they are, but are far from the only “metal thing” in a car. Then they accidentally messed up the classification and called it “the plastic thing”. I mean, yeah, I get what people mean from context, same way an auto mechanic could interpret “the plastic thing” to mean “the cylinders”, but it kind of gnaws at my soul every time I see it.
Block the furry instances. There is no algorithm, and it’s a good thing.
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.
How do you get all the furry porn? I’ve been here for two years and barely see any.
If you don’t see anything at !transyiff@lemmy.blahaj.zone or !yiff@pawb.social then you probably have NSFW content hidden in your settings.
Try https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=furry&nsfw=true for some other communities.
It’s an honour for my community to even be mentioned.
Yeah turning off nsfw filters and searching “furry” or “yiff” is probably the best bet to find anything.
My first few months on Lemmy were spent on /all because there was so little activity overall. However, that led to seeing a lot of porn or fetishes I had no interest in showing up in my feed.
So I just blocked those /c’s as they showed up.
Took a little while but it worked out.
Instance blocking pawb.social and yiffit.net should get rid of most of it.
edit: to combat some misinformation in the thread below: Blocking instances will only block communities from that instance, you can still interact with the users on other communities.
That seems to have done the trick, thanks.
Note that that’s also going to block content from users from that instance, not just communities hosted on that instance.
I feel like when people choose an instance that has a deliberate “slant” you have to accept you may be blocked by folks who don’t want that.
Like everyone on .ml
Yeah, I can get that perspective. Just saying, as OP may not be aware of all of the effects of the block.
That is incorrect.
You are correct, thanks. Defederation does block users from an instance, but user-level instance blocks on Lemmy do not (though PieFed apparently has a separate user-level user block).
Yiffit.net has been dead for awhile, I thought?
I wouldn’t know, I have it blocked.
Damn we almost had them
Yeah, for a bit over a year I think
Blocking instances will only block communities from that instance, you can still interact with the users on other communities.
As long as you’re on lemmy. Piefed does it stupidly.
Sure. But this is literally !asklemmy@lemmy.world
It’s the home instance of the account that matters. I wasn’t disagreeing with you, just adding a proviso.
Weirdly enough, I got a long blocklist of communities in languages I don’t understand, mostly German, those often showed up while I browsed [all].
Porn rarely shows up for me, even hentai. I’ve yet to see a furry porn post while browsing [all]. I wonder if this has something to do with the home instance? I even have “Show NSFW posts” on, so it’s not that.
Weirdly enough, I got a long blocklist of communities in languages I don’t understand, mostly German, those often showed up while I browsed [all].
You can exclude German in your language preferences.
Lemmy is very popular with tech savvy people and tech savvy people are disproportionately represented in the furry community.
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 mean, it’s just the people that are on here. If you’re not on the list below you are most likely not a part of a major subgroup on Lemmy.
- Tankie
- Communist
- Socialist
- Anarchist
- Trans
- Furry
- Linux user
- Self hosting
- Programmer
- Tabletop RPG
- Star Trek (makes sense, lgbtq+ friendly space socialists)
