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If an instance is sharing content that another instance finds problematic, then defederation makes sense. Regardless, though, it seems like lemmynsfw is doing their due diligence to handle illegal content. We all know that porn will exist... having good stewards of those communities is vital. Punishing them for providing a (legal) porn platform is counterproductive.
We should remember that a lot of these services are still young, and definitely did not expect the popularity they got. I know they're all working on scaling up and adding features, but the teams aren't huge and they're playing catchup with established sites (not that Reddit was ever great at moderation.)
It turns out that setting up an Internet social arena is really hard. They have existed for decades, and the core mechanics and content policy make a big difference in the vibe of the communities that arise on it. What may work initially then becomes toxic. It's very hard to predict where you'll end up once the Eternal September kicks in.
It's not a solved problem at all!
Heck, running a Discord server wasn't all roses. You take a month off and you come back to find a moderator has alienated most of the community by abusing the community rules. So yeah, building the framework AND trying to moderate has to be overwhelming.
Instance admins can block communities, usually you'd do a purge (to erase the "cache" of the local copy of the community) and then block it.
there should be an instance filter for fediverse users so that unwanted content, namely all the crazy disgusting shit being posted on nsfw doesn't automatically show up in users feeds
You can turn of NSFW content in your account settings if you find it objectionable. This is on both lemmy and kbin.
You're on kbin. You already have a NSFW filter.
I think, like most people who seem to bitch about NSFW stuff on their feed, is that they want to filter out all the stuff they're not into and leave all the stuff they are.
Which, while I sympathize with, is something they need to deal with themselves rather than something that someone should be doing for them. Back when reddit had NSFW content on all, there were a bunch of subreddits that I didn't want to see. So I blocked them. Because my opinions are my responsibility, not anyone else's.
Blocking individual communities / magazines is also possible on kbin. But I guess some people just want to cry for the sake of crying. The only thing that doesn't quite work is blocking actual instances, which the GUI supports, but it does not actually block communities from that instance.