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Ugh, this. And I hate that it's like that.
Like, I used to have my instance open to whoever to sign up. My guiding principle was to have a place that wasn't overrun with [parts that are just way too jarring]. Holy shit was that an impossible goal to do alone so I shuttered it up and now it's just a private instance / testbed for Tesseract.
My friends knew I was active on Reddit, and that was fine. But I wouldn't tell them I spend any amount of time here because what they would see going to almost any random instance will ~~probably~~ definitely not look good on me by association despite that I'm nowhere near that.
So if anyone shares this desire, I am open to un-mothballing my instance, rebranding, and taking on new admins and re-opening to users who also want a place like that.
i mean, how many of your IRL friends are furries who use Linux on their home PCs?
Ok so wtf is everyone talking about jarring parts
Maybe all the ”what the fuck we just made another-moe" communities?
I swear I used to block three every week, until I figured out it was just a few users who didn't know how to use content warning tags, and then I just blocked those users.
furries. linux supremacists. extremist left-wingers of various flavors and identity groups. fetishists of every variety and their weird SFW quasi pornography.
not sure how you aren't seeing any of that. i see it on a daily basis and to not see it i have to block dozens of communities. at one point on lemmy i had something like 60 communities blocked and 100s of users.
I mean I see it but it’s the internet… do people really not expect them to be posting?
nothing wrong with them posting and doing their thing, but in fediverse that stuff hits general feeds and going to be incredibly alienating to a non-fetishist userbase. if the fediverse wants to grow it needs to keep controversial content away from the front page.
personally i know furries and I don't really care, but I'm a weirdo. Yet I still don't really want weird furry shit that I don't care about constantly showing up in my feed.
Average people are FREAKED OUT by furries, even pro-queer progressives: https://slate.com/advice/2026/02/parent-advice-son-hobby-community-furry.html
Oh well yeah I mean furry content isn’t the same as furry porn. I immediately blocked the nsfw instances from my feed. Idk why that isn’t done by default
i think some instances do, some don't.
but some content is not porn, but very much like porn, like a lot of the furry meme stuff
No idea. Maybe they're still federated with Lemmygrad and Hexbear for some odd reason?
My confusion is in no way lessened
They're particularly toxic tankie servers on Lemmy
lemmy.ml is still rife with crazy tankies who go into other instances and harass the crap out of people.
Ok I guess the only thing I have left to google is tankie lol
I find it hard to believe you have any friends, pat
Lmfao he definitely does okay, some that are cool enough to know he's active on reddit and nobody who's cool enough to know about the lemmy