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.
Welcome to the old internet.
There is no algorithm. Lemmy doesn’t “figure out” anything.
There is lots of furry porn.
We love you.
Theres no algorithm lol
Only 8? Rookie numbers there mate.
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.
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 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
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.
There aren’t any proper algorithm on Lemmy, unfortunately you do need to block them yourself. They usually are in a single instance, so you could simply block that.
Subscribe to groups that interest you, block groups, instances and users annoying you. Stick to your subscribed feed.
Lol try BlueSky if you think there is a lot here.
I use boost for lemmy on my phone. I filter out certain key words for topics that I have zero interest in. Works a treat.
I got it all blocked and then someone spun up like 30 AI porn communities and I had to block those too…
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.
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.
