Ask Lemmy

There is no algorithm.

Are you looking at the feed of everything that is posted on your instance?

Block the furry instances. There is no algorithm, and it's a good thing.

Instance blocking pawb.social and yiffit.net that should get rid of most of it.

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.

Posted by MutantTailThing...

Hmmmm....

Although yeah, people posting the stuff they like generally works like that. Stuff you gotta block. And yeah not an easy task blocking each community.

Don't you have blurring turned on at least? I think that's default right, and it would certainly help with that adorning problem you mentioned while not disabling all NSFW.

Where are you seeing all this furry porn? Asking for a friend, who wants to see more furry porn.

Only 8? Rookie numbers there mate.

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.

How do you get all the furry porn? I've been here for two years and barely see any.

I haven't seen a single furry anything, or any type of porn for that matter.

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.

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.

TIL I need to sub to a whole instance. Cheers OP.

.... unzip

Filter your home Feed by Subscribed only, not All so you'll be sure to only see the stuff you want to see.

That's how I use Piefed/Lemmy and if it was not for that filtering tool, I would have given up a long time ago... Too much noise and too much weird stuff ;)

Subscribe to groups that interest you, block groups, instances and users annoying you. Stick to your subscribed feed.

Lemmy is a haven for the various kinds of material that, for one reason or another, has no place in commercial surveillance-capitalist social media, so you can expect lots of furry porn, horny anime and other such material alongside the Marxism-Leninism, calls to boycott Israel and frank talk about mental health and disability.

Filtering your feed isn't anybody's job but yours. If you want to be spoonfed and controlled, that's what big tech does.

I got it all blocked and then someone spun up like 30 AI porn communities and I had to block those too...

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

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.

Lol try BlueSky if you think there is a lot here.

And more importantly, where can I find it

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 block them as they come up. Individual users seem to be good about posting it to specific communities, so I typically just block the community, but I'm pretty sure there are some users that I've blocked entirely because they (as far as I can tell) only post furry content. I haven't seen any furry content on my lemmy feed for at least a year now, I think.

Part of it is also the instance where you registered your account. I think lemmy.world not only has more furry communities, but is also federated with more instances that have furry content. I'm not an expert on how federation works though, so someone with better understanding might step and correct me. Also, I don't think there's an algorithm on lemmy...but I might be wrong about that too.

I peruse all and do not have this issue. I may have blocked a furry porn community or two but I have several non porn furry stuff not blocked and it has not been an issue there. I even set my settings to show nsfw because there are some people who think a skimpy bathing suit or such is nsfw.

Probably just yiffit.net and pawb.social being themselves. I, for one, don't mind it, but I can understand why people don't wanna associate with it.