If it could get me in trouble at work if someone saw it over my shoulder, it should be marked NSFW

There is an option to not see NSFW posts in the lemmy settings, so not only will some people not look at them, others will never even see them.

I'd the content is in images, maybe put the image in the body of the post within a spoiler tag rather than flagging the post nsfw.

Back before piefed I used to skip nsfw as it was so often so annoying as I definately have a much higher bar for nsfw. For me it has to have straight out nudity at a minimum. A scantily clad figure that could be haning out at a beach is not nsfw for me. Saw this a lot in thighentology. Its like nsfw is not merely a sexy picture. Anyway one reason I went with piefed was the many options which include not bluring nsfw so now I don't care.

so... what's that DBD community? 🙂

Edit: it's "gore/gross" not NSFL

Piefed has NSFW and NSFL

You might consider migrating the community from Lemmy to a Piefed instance to be able to use that feature

Most people see NSFW and assume porn, if you’re in the dbd community some bloody gameplay is to be expected imo

NSFW content will see low/no interaction because of the restrictive default settings of clients (especially on mobile). NSFW won't show up by default, there's no notice about it being filtered, and the settings for the filter are either tucked away deep in the specific client settings or don't even exist... For example, I'm using Interstellar on iOS, and ALL NSFW are filtered, with no option to turn it off - and the fedia.io option of "hide NSFW", even though I disabled it, doesn't apply.

And most users won't be bothered to go this far to see content they don't even know about. I'd guesstimate a good 80% of your visitors will be in the same predicament, not seeing NSFW thus not knowing about it thus not bothering to look for it thus never seeing content you mark as such.

And in my opinion, this simple binary toggle isn't even the right ah of filtering content. For example, I don't mind "sensitive" content that isn't explicitly sexual in my main feed. A lot of topics I'd like to read about can be considered "sensitive", aka "hide from your kids", but isn't generally problematic even in a work environment. On the other hand I do mind sexual content on my feed that makes it impossible to use the Fediverse at work, especially when the client has no option to quickly disable/enable showing these types of posts.

A better option would be a type selection for the "sensitive" marker, with explicit topics like "content warning: sexual assault" or "sexual content" or "content warning: dead bodies depicted" etc., then let the users filter based on what they're comfortable with. Grouping everything under a "sensitive content" label just makes it worse because you can't know what's gonna be under the blur - a penis? a dead body? a rotting corpse?

I just blocked a community over a big-breasted cartoon character smushed up against something else because filters don't save when you web browse and clear data on exit, and I never know who's going to be around, working or not. I don't need my 8 year old nephew seeing that content.