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Historically, porn has organically decided which platform or formats become dominant. It's incredibly anti-censorship, but walks many fine lines.

As Reddit now and tomorrow reveals more weaknesses, where will the OnlyFans creators, porn posters, and all those grassroots porn communities go? The creators need to make money by showing to a large and interested user base. The users need lots of content to choose from and be fed constantly, with very few hindrances between them and their...goals. Many of the niches actually have respectful and healthy communities, too. Those people deserve an easy to use platform, just as much as people that want to look at cats, some of those groups, arguably more.

The thought of how to pose this to the Fediverse, now, has been on my mind for weeks:

Can the fediverse rise to the task? Does it even want to? Should it?

Personally, I think it should absolutely try, but I'm not sure it can do so without several deep strides in tech and development. I'm aware this is a hot af take, but it's undeniable that the internet IS for porn, and denying that would be a huge opportunity loss for inevitably winning this popularity context.

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[–] rcmaehl@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You say that like lemmynsfw.com isn't one of the most popular instances.

[–] RedditExodus@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been trying to block all the Hentai, cartoon, and AI porn communities on LemmyNSFW but other than that it's pretty great! If you turn on the auto-expand images setting it makes for easy left-hand browsing.

[–] OtakuAltair@vlemmy.net 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Blocking entire instances from the user's end is a very common request and should be a thing at some point, specially in the 3rd party apps.

[–] etrotta@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That is already possible on kbin (browse to kbin.social/d/instance then block there, e.g. https://kbin.social/d/vlemmy.net ), I don't think that it is supported on Lemmy though.
(Mentioning since this discussion is on kbin, though it seems like you are using lemmy. rip)

[–] Mnmalst@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Does that work for you tho? I have two domains blocked but still see them (at least one of them I am sure of) in my "all" feed.

[–] RedditExodus@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I don't want to block the entire instance. I still want all the real porn, just not the cartoon/AI stuff.