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!
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.
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.
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.
Only 8? Rookie numbers there mate.
Only 8 blocks. Found his problem!🤣
I have zero blocks. I think its silly.
But I don’t browse by all either.
Did we look at Usenet (when it existed) and just aggregate it into a single basket? I don’t think so, I treat this the same: add what I want to see, never see the rest. Done.
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.
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.
Sometimes I have a habit of unblurring at home, suddenly did it instinctively at work and realised what I’d just done to a literal NSFW filter.
We should be allowed to look at a little porn at work. 🤷
Oh I’ve been there
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.
Where are you seeing all this furry porn? Asking for a friend, who wants to see more furry porn.
Come to pawb.social, it’s everywhere here!
Even though I’m a furry I don’t tend to go look at it because I’m not really into most anthro stuff, but it is there.
– Frost
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.
I’m also confused. I’m on the main furry instance, and it looks like there was one NSFW-image posted locally within the last 7 days.
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.
Depends how its blocked.
Programming.dev hide communities without defederating, and publish a list of the hidden ones. You can just subscribe to them and you get full access.
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.
I see the occasional oldensmut and that’s about 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.
I haven’t seen a single furry anything, or any type of porn for that matter.
https://lemmyverse.net/communities?nsfw=true
Subscribe to a few communities on there and you will.
No need to subscribe, just browse all and every now and then there’s someone methed up and horny and the new of all is filled with nsfw posts.
As long as they’re in one community it’s not hard to block but idk if I can personally block instances. I’m sure it’s possible but eh. But I don’t want to put nsfw filter on either as not all nsfw is porn.
I exclusively browse by all and have only blocked two instances and have no furry porn. This seems to be a .world issue with whatever you’re federated with.
TIL I need to sub to a whole instance. Cheers OP.
… unzip
User 1 browsing by All: Why are there so many wolf boner pictures all over my page? The content that I want to see is news updates on European Union treaty updates and related discussion. What the hell is wrong with Threadiverse users that they want to view this stuff?
User 2 browsing by All: What is all this boring diplomatic stuff? Why can’t there be more wolf boner pics? What the hell is wrong with Threadiverse users that they want to view this stuff?
User 3 browsing by All: Why do I have to dig through all these wolf boner pics to get to my fox boner pics? What the hell is wrong with Threadiverse users that they want to view this stuff?
Fox boner pics? Go on…
…unzip (again)
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 ;)
Yeah, I just don’t think that trying to view everything posted to the Threadiverse and blacklisting what one doesn’t want to see is really something that will scale.
Like, imagine viewing a combined feed of every Web page that someone puts up anywhere on the Web. That’s got a lot more volume than the Threadiverse does in 2026. The signal-to-noise ratio is just going to be unworkable.
Maybe someday, someone will build a recommendation system that profiles users and tries to suggest what they want, but I’m pretty bearish on the prospect of individually-curated killfiles. It didn’t scale on Usenet and that had clients with more-powerful blacklisting functionality than do Threadiverse clients in 2026.
I really think that as of 2026, the most-scalable route is whitelisting what one does want to see. Find communities that have content that one is interested in, subscribe to those, browse Subscribed.
I know it’s because I don’t have many, but my subscriptions are pretty much dead (somewhat niche stuff). More general stuff (like this comm that is not hard to find anyway due to activity) feels like filler and some other comms I might visit might have stuff I don’t want to commonly see (like new accounts made for blatant self-promotion).
Relates to @zxqwas@lemmy.world and @whaleross@lemmy.world (why someone would be browsing /all)
A lot of mines are too and that’s ok with me. I mean, I don’t need new/fresh content every minute, or every day. For me it matters a lot more to not be annoyed by low quality content and not waste my time with those. Time I can then spend elsewhere/doing something else than scroll ;)
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.
