NSFW federation

3 years ago by Mountaineer to c/meta

Hi @lodion@aussie.zone , I'm new to Lemmy and looking for a home instance, being Australian, aussie.zone seems to fit the bill.
I see one of the instance rules is "No porn".
I also see that there exists other instances such as lemmynsfw.com.
But I don't appear to be able to subscribe to the communities there.

I can see their safe for work community: https://aussie.zone/c/lemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com but not an actual community with content such as: https://aussie.zone/c/celebs@lemmynsfw.com

Have I simply misconfigured something, or will aussie.zone not allow me to federate to nsfw communities?

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lodion 7 points 3 years ago

I've explicitly defederated from a couple of NSFW instances. I do not want their content replicated to the aussie.zone server.

No judgement, I'd just like to minimise the chances of legal issues. Also when I've checked, those instances are open registration.....

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path: 0 112581, hotness: undefined, score: 7, children: 4

24Vindustrialdildo 9 points 3 years ago

This seems like such a huge flaw in Lemmy that any of that content needs to reside on your server just because a user wants to view it. I honestly thought the user profile just kept a list of preferences and subbed communities to populate a feed on demand for the user.

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path: 0 112581 113295, hotness: undefined, score: 9, children: 1

lodion 6 points 3 years ago

Its not that clearcut. Thumbnails for posts are stored on your home instance. Images that are uploaded are stored on the users's home instance.
As it isn't 100% clear, and the possible risk could shut this place down, I'd rather avoid the issue entirely as much as possible.

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path: 0 112581 113295 113633, hotness: undefined, score: 6, children: 0