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I just made an account in bluesky. And was greeted by lots of anime tits. Nothing against people's preferences, but is this how businesses nowadays greet new customers? I mean, they are trying to build a twitter alternative, aren't they?

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[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Welcome to the internet! Half my lemmy community blocklist is to keep cartoon titties off my feed.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You should publish that list for .. Um... research purposes.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

My understanding -- I've never used it -- is that Bluesky uses some sort of "curated feed" list. The idea, from what I gathered, is that some person (or people?) could create a list of stuff and then people subscribe to it. Seemed like an interesting approach, since it's a route to improve personalizing content relative to, say, Reddit. Originally, Reddit intended to run off a recommendation system, but that kind of fell by the wayside in the first few years.

I've wondered how practical it would be to have people publish feeds, then take into account one's voting behavior and how it reflects feed content to help do recommendations. Can't just score a feed by aligned posts -- otherwise, it'd be trivially-gameable you could have people spamming by creating feeds and including popular things, and then also including some spam item. But I could imagine that being the foundation for something that does a good job of recommending stuff.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Begone foreign languages I do not speak and penises I don't want to see.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ohh, I may have to create a bluesky login after all 🌚

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

Best covert promo ever.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)
  1. It’s not exactly a business
  2. Furries keep the Internet running, annoy them at your own peril
  3. in general, bsky is queer as fuck. That is a feature.
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)
  1. Bluesky is a platform where, like any other social platform, businesses can try to establish themselves to better communicate with and to become more approachable to customers. What OP is asking is why a business would want to make a Bluesky account if Bluesky has NSFW stuff like anime porn front and center (and the problem doesn't seem to be whether there is porn in Bluesky, but it's more about it being everywhere you look when creating an account)
  2. The furry and anime community are not the same and don't overlap as much as people think. The anime community is more about Japanese culture and animated Japanese TV shows and films, while the furry community only really care about stuff related with anthropomorphic animals. There are some anthropomorphic characters in anime like girls with cat ears, but they barely look alike fursonas.
  3. Whenever I think of people who would like to see anime tits, I think of young and mostly virgin straight (and maybe also bi?) dudes, not exactly a diverse community as LGBT+.
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 weeks ago

Bro that’s just the internet. When I left Reddit I had over a thousand anime subs blocked. Took me weeks of blocking them when I first got here last year. Twitter wasn’t as bad for me since I never look at the curated right wing propaganda TL and only look at who I follow which is all mostly sports beat writers and hardcore sports fans.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Could you even make a more obvious ad for Bluesky?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Hopefully this link shared correctly, but I found that furries are all over the place there. And while I don’t care that they want to be furries, I don’t really want to see it all over.

Anyway, this moderation list has helped a lot in filtering out a lot of that type of post and has made my experience a lot better.

It’s a scary looking link, but I promise I just hit the share button from the app. This list is called “Ultimate Furry Mute”

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ekvhqkjiqocjabzxdckyh7oj/lists/3k6y4nbg3bo2f

Edit: and then this one is the same idea, just a different moderation list

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:zxb6pe4wetisrbvsjniqsllr/lists/3k3achhhenb2l

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I found that furries are all over the place there.

I have some unfortunate news for you about this place then...

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

There's two or three instances where all the smut comes from, if you block those, it really cleans out your feed.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I honestly don't see a lot of furry stuff here in my feed or server. Or even in All when I browse that from time to time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yeah, there's not much content, but I've found a lot of fans hanging around here, much more so than say, Reddit or other mainstream sites. Kinda like how Linux users are over-represented here. There's a lot of overlap with furries and techies. I can spot a furry avatar/username from a mile away.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And that, to me, is fine. People can be furries or like furries. I'm OK with that.

On Bluesky, however, there is/was a ton of furry content being posted, and not just drawings or simple photos. I sadly know what a furry, wolf penis looks like by just scrolling through the app. So the moderation lists are great.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's unfortunate and uncalled for on a public forum where people didn't ask to see it right away. Sorry you had to see that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I appreciate that.

I mean, I'm not offended or anything. But I just don't have any NEED to see that stuff when I'm just checking to see what people are talking about.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That you know of. Your granddad could be a furry—you’ve just never asked the right questions.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Dude I browse the /r/all of Lemmy and have to filter out the NSFW because it is all just too much.

Any social platform without corporate influence will be filled with porn. After all...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

True. On lemmy I have a long blocklist full of anime stuff.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Damn are there that many anime related communities on Lemmy? I feel like the vast majority would be instance specific e.g ani.social and pawb.social but nobody's really browsing those if you aren't looking for anime stuff

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

If you're particularly bored and get doomscrolling /c/all, you'll get into the various anime subs eventually. You know you've gone too long when it's nothing but anime shit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

If you doomscroll c/all, you need some hobbies. Unless political argument is your hobby

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

Not going to argue with that at all.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

Well, let's say I haven't figured out how to block whole instances, or maybe it was not possible when I made my first Lemmy account. But on the anime instances there is like a new community every week or so.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

I browse all a lot to look for interesting new communities. Every now and then I come across a new community from ani.social, the NSFW instance or something, and on Voyager I can't seem to block entire instances. I also don't know if there's a way to filter only the communities without blocking the users too, but as it stands, I may have to look for another app to block the instances entirely.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

I mean, they are trying to build a twitter alternative, aren't they?

Yes, exactly

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 weeks ago

There was a recent change in Twitter's posting policies. They now have decided that any art posted to twitter, twitter owns. There is an on going exodus of artists who decided on bluesky as their new homes. There might be algo bias going on from the influx.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

I wasn't even greeted by tits,maaaan

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

That just sounds like they need better NSFW tagging and enforcement of NSFW tags.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

I mean, there's plenty of anime pornography on the Threadiverse too. It's just that sopuli.xyz, your home instance, isn't federated with a number of hosts (and you may not be viewing its "all" feed).

https://sopuli.xyz/instances

Look at the "Blocked instances" tab. You've got stuff like:

https://lemmynsfw.com/

https://kbin.burggit.moe/ (which I can't seem to reach due to some sort of TLS issue, but burggit.moe proper has "Free expression, including the Loli/Shota/Cub variety, are welcome here!", and I assume that this is a gateway to the same material). I definitely remember that burggit.moe used to deal with consentual-nonconsentual material and underage anime material, because it caused lemmynsfw.com to defederate from them.

https://lolicon.rocks/

https://ac.akirin.xyz/ I don't know what content they truck in, and their front page doesn't indicate it, but it looks like the scrolling URLs in the bottom contain a bunch of links to various Fediverse hosts that deal in underage anime porn, and the user icons seem to all be anime girls, so I'm assuming that that might be their thing.

Not going to do a complete list of the blocked instances there, just pointing out that even if you look at your "all" feed on sopuli.xyz, it might not be representative of the Threadiverse as an aggregate.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I can confirm that All on Sopuli is regularly inundated by suggestive (but usually not outright pornographic) anime pics. Most of these are the "Moe" communities, but there are a handful that specific to the franchise the characters are from.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

there's plenty of anime pornography on the Threadiverse too.

Sure but pretty much none of the apps are going to be opened and be presented with "here have anime tiddies!"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I truly do not understand this place one bit.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago

Mastodon is better because it's federated. I'd never heard of bluesky but I just looked it up(no account even) and it appears that you are correct, it is filled with anime porn.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes. Full of anime both porn and non porn varieties. Source - just signed up 5 minutes ago after reading about the twitter exodus yesterday. I never liked twitter and never used it. Was always a redditor. But bluesky content is all anime titties.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

So was twitter, at least back when it was Twitter before Mr idiot face took over.

A lot of content creators were on Twitter because, especially after the tumbler thing, it became the one place they could promote their content. Obviously they couldn't distribute it on Twitter but it was a good place for advertising themselves. So it's not all that surprising that those people have moved over to the new alternative. They go where the audience goes.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

A few years ago mastodon seemed to be awash with bots posting... young scantily clad anime girls.

Whether or not you find it offensive, it's not really ideal for building a community around and it's a shame admins just let it go.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I’ve never even thought to access BlueSky via anything but the ‘following’ tab. Wow!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

There's different feeds you subscribe to, and you can disable adult content.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Is bluesky kinda dead for anyone else? Or am I just too used to bots on twatter

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Its twitter's alt.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

it's that + all of the iNfLuEnCeRs from Twitter who consider Twitter now beyond the pale, it's a good thing to me that this is all somewhere I can easily avoid 😄

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

It is, if that's what you follow.

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