Lemmy actually has two different "trending" feeds. Active, which seems to show posts that are getting more comments, and Hot, which seems more focused on votes. You probably have Active selected by default. Turns out porn gets lots of upvotes but doesn't generate a lot of conversation.

[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've just checked both active and hot (and for what it's with, also checked new and and the other options). No porn or nsfw posits in at least the first several screenfulls of scrolling through "all"

Show nsfw is turned on on my account settings.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe you're on lemmy.ml or one of the other instances defederated from lemmynsfw where most of it is from 🤷

[–] Faresh@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

They are on the same instance as you are (lemmy.world).

[–] EchoCT@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

What 'my friends' have done is make an acct on lemmynsfw and one on ml, the apps allow you you to swap between accounts in 2 button presses. (Jeroba for me). So I have porn mode and doom scrolling mode.