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.
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.
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.
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.
Many instances block nsfw instances, maybe some of the furry communities are impacted by that.
I see the occasional oldensmut and that’s about it
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.
Where are you seeing all this furry porn? Asking for a friend, who wants to see more furry porn.
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 ;)
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
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
Filtering your feed isn’t anybody’s job but yours. If you want to be spoonfed and controlled, that’s what big tech does.
Subscribe to groups that interest you, block groups, instances and users annoying you. Stick to your subscribed feed.
I got it all blocked and then someone spun up like 30 AI porn communities and I had to block those too…
