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Where do you draw the line on NSFW content? (lemmy.zip)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/fedigrow@lemmy.zip
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Hi all. I was excited when I saw a new Dead by Daylight community was created and I've been trying to post daily to get it going. Its not my community, but I would love to have a thriving Dead by Daylight community on the Fediverse.

Some Dead by Daylight game content can be mature in theme, and I marked some posts as NSFW because I thought they might be a bit borderline, but I also noticed those posts I did mark as NSFW saw almost no interaction. Not even from the community owner. I suspect the issue is the NSFW flag and I second guessed and removed it, but I wanted to hear perspectives from others on that. Is violent game content worth marking NSFW? Should I just wait and see if anybody is bothered? Does marking things NSFW limit their growth a great deal?

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[–] 1 point 11 months ago (6 children)

Those people are weird, and unless the NSFW and NSFL tags can both be applied to the same post at the same time, this solution ignores the significant overlap that can happen between them (i.e., a lot of NSFL is also NSFW and vice-versa). I still think that the vast majority of people who filter out NSFW will also filter out NSFL.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (5 children)

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (4 children)

    Thanks, good to know that they can both be applied and that "NSFL" is labeled as gore/gross.

    I still don't think that doing this would really address the OP's issue because the other thing to consider is that even though this tag option is available in Piefed, I expect that it would have absolutely no effect on Lemmy instances, which are the majority of the Threadiverse.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (3 children)

    It's not the first time a similar issue is raised, which is why Piefed implemented that feature.

    Same for crossposts comments consolidation, user and posts flairs, keyword filters...

    Those issues get raised regularly, the current solution is to use Piefed to solve them.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Cool, thanks. I hope that Lemmy eventually implements that tag too and makes it interoperable with the Piefed one, because as it is currently, this solution would only be a solution for users seeing the post from Piefed itself and wouldn't address the majority of users.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    Lemmy's development compared to Piefed is quite slow. Piefed reached feature parity with Lemmy only one year and a half after starting, and now it has a lot more features.

    Feature fragmentation happens all the time, Mastodon didn't have quote replies for a very long time, most of the Misskey forks had it.

    People who want to use those features move to the platform which supports them.

    Every time someone posts that a feature from Lemmy is missing while it exists in Piefed, people are going to tell that person to migrate to Piefed.

    And it's okay, quite a few people probably don't need a "gore" filter or personal feeds. But for the ones who do, the option is there.

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