Yep happened to similar services in the past too.
This post seems like a good reminder for everyone that people can see who upvoted, downvoted, and boosted any post and comment by clicking "more" and "activity".
Do with this information as you will.
What exactly is such a feature supposed to do, other than making it easier to try to dig through someone's history to 'win' an argument or discredit users?
Seems dumb.
Between this and the requirement for email address at registration I find the lack of privacy on kbin/fediverse a bit curious. I don't see why such a feature brings value, but at the same time I guess it's more for a technical reason. The list of users who upvoted need to be saved anyway and as it's decentralized anyway anyone can read it. Just wished it was hashed instead, or replaced by some digital signature.
I'm only guessing, but I assume email is likely to help cut down on spam bots. Maybe? (Someone do tell me if that's wrong. I wouldn't mind learning something!)
I know some users here say seeing who upvotes promotes transparency. Maybe you're less likely to upvote some hatespeech if you're attached to it and not doing so anonymously. Which then means it gets less traction and the user feels less welcome. Which curbs it.
But then privacy is important, too. There's nothing wrong with me going to the adult store and buying a gimp suit for myself with the Anal Blaster Master 3000: Destroyer of Rims vibrating dildo pack. But I also don't need my neighbors or family to know. Just like I don't need people to know I upvoted that really hot video of a man smearing chunky peanut butter on his incredibly hairy chest as a girl tries to lick it off.
I'm sticking around for now and seeing if things either change (like if the users for upvoted etc get hashed or something for example) and how things end up feeling in the long run with or without those changes.
It's been a conversation lately on kbin.social. I imagine our kbin.social administrator will address it. He's been pretty on top of things
@stephfinitely That's one of the few things that I never understood about people (users/developers) on the fediverse.
They want the fediverse to be successful, but they don't want to make it "interesting" to the common folk.
People want adult content and something that simply works. Most of the platforms on the fediverse have serious issues of UI/UX, lack of good mobile apps and a simple on boarding experience.
The fediverse needs to stop being so puritan.
Amen. Neo puritanism is the most confusing thing about the modern world to me. Sex and sexuality are Good, in a moral sense. Repression is Bad. In the last decade or two, we've been going backwards.
It’s certainly an odd metric but it is a true one. Sex sells I guess.
Some of them have been nothing but spam though. I don't mind porn or other erotic content, but it shouldn't be random bullshit that gets posted within 1-2 minutes by the same account.
I'm not going to lie I haven't looked at any of it. I have nothing against porn per say but it's not why I'm on Kbin. I really just thought it was funny how much I was starting to see and that then reminded me of how porn is usually a indicator of what type of technology will become popular.
The pervs have spoken. The lewd mags have been lit! Boners call for aid!
I still don't know what kbin is and at this point I'm too afraid to ask
kbin is like lemmy but a bit different. lemmy users and kbin users can interact and see each other's posts.
Amateur porn being posted here similar to how it was on /r/gonewild will be the true indicator of whether the community chose this site over others.
Yeah, the real metric is that none of them are the onlyfans spammers, but the real content creators (even nsfw ones).
There's been some discussion about it on gonewild@lemmynsfw.com, and the users seem to be in favor of banning anyone who does any sort of selling, even if it's just in their profile. I think that's the only way to combat it.
Because there's a thin and blurry line between "I like to post, and also happen to have an OF" and "I have this account solely to drum up business for my OF by pretending to actually enjoy posting". And inevitably if you open that door, sellers will push it. Anyone who used to hang out on nsfw subreddits saw it. Either you ban all sellers, or they drastically lower the quality.
(one notable exception being text based subs like nsfwpenpals or askredditafterdark)
@stephfinitely https://lemmynsfw.com/ seems like the place for porn on the fediverse, at least for lemmy.
While I appreciate information. I wasn't looking for porn. Was just making a observation.
There is porn here? I won't believe you unless i see it for myself...
...got a link? ;o)
By default, your account has "Hide adult content" on. In your Settings page:
https://kbin.social/settings/general
...you want to uncheck "Hide adult content" if you want to see it.
thanks for using Leebra!
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Reddit is inevitably going to reign in porn use as part of the IPO rollout… that’ll be the day the site truly dies
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