Reddit Migration

Yeah, the Fediverse is pretty much designed to be able to handle stuff like this. They just get their own Instances, and anyone who does not wish to see that content can defederate with them.

You can't keep anyone, at all, not porn, not Zuckerberg, not Nazis, nobody, off the Fediverse. It's actually impossible. All you can do is defederate the things you do not wish to associate with.

This is a non-issue, and hand-wringing about it is largely pointless. If you want to talk about the rightness of defederating different platforms, that's a different story. But that's also up to the communities of each individual Instance.

lemmynsfw.com

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

Just an FYI, OnlyFans (or any other business) could easily start a kbin, mastodon, pixelfed instance and call it kbin.OnlyFans.net or OnlyFans.social, or what ever they choose.

Im copying/pasting something I said on another thread but it applies here. Its what I would like to ultimately have in the federation:

I am a free speech absolutist and I want pretty much anything to go but I want the tools for users to be able to block it in any manner they want from blocking users to blocking magazines to blocking domains and I want it to include comments and actually go both ways (joke not intended but right after I wrote that I liked it). When I block something I don't want that person, place, or thing to see any of my comments or posts. If I blocked them its a good chance its folks that might try doxing or some shit. I would like blockers to know who or what they blocked so they can undo if they choose but I don't want blockees to know. I would like profiles to be only seeable by logged in users and I would like usernames and such masked for folks not logged in. I realize this is a lot and its not here now and that some folks may hate the idea of what I write here but that is how I would like to see something like this go. As much power as possible brought to individual consumers to prune their feeds and as much freedom as possible for creators.

I’m doing my part by hosting a bondage magazine (/m/bondage) on kbin. I spent 11 years getting all this free porn from /r/bondage, and I think that if we all take an active role in posting our favorite types of nsfw content and help foster its growth through interacting with other posters, this’ll all go well.

At the end of the day, we just need to work towards having new content daily for people to look at.

lemmynsfw.com

Plug: !animemidriff@lemmynsfw.com

For cars it's racing, for planes it's military, for CPUs/GPUs it's gaming, and for communication and graphics/video, it's porn.

This goes back pretty far, too, as the original test image for image compression techniques was a crop of a Playboy model. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna

There's already porn in the fediverse. I don't see a problem with it existing, but it's always bothered me when porn and social media get mixed. That's not necessarily because of prudishness or shame, but rather the fact that social media often employs dark patterns of addiction, and porn addiction can become very real, very quickly. I think we need to be careful about it, and I think there should be an onus on platforms as well as producers to help protect the vulnerable against addiction and the downward spiral.

If someone makes a federated porn app, they could call it "Feddish" ... just give me a mention in the credits.

They could host a Lemmy/Kbin accounts, although I feel like Twitter will be their next choice, since it's algorithm-ridden and has a huge amount of people in it.

@SCmSTR lookup switter.at, it was once a mastodon instance for sex workers but shut down even before twitter migration...

I browsed All a couple weeks ago and quickly stumbled upon a naked woman so I think we’re in business here lol

It's true that porn is a big part of the internet at large. You can point to countless examples where a product (even social media) lived and died by porn.

But there are also countless examples where porn was never a factor. Most of the major social platforms today have always had an anti-porn approach. It's debatable whether that helped or hindered their growth, but it's always been a thing.

Now, I can't think of any where porn was a big part of their platform that got removed, and they came out ok. Maybe that's (part of) why Reddit has been downplaying porn for a while.

Right now, there is plenty of porn in the fediverse. But there will be the same challenges as any user-submitted porn site. There's currently a big discussion about categories that are unwanted, generally offensive, and illegal in certain jurisdictions. The fediverse makes all of that more complicated. There's also a big concern about the content being uploaded directly, increasing the load on every instance that federates.

There will definitely be porn here, but I don't think it's going to work the same as it did on Reddit.

Reddit had been to go-to place for NSWF content, which drove a ton of traffic and engagement for reddit. If the fediverse is to succeed, it must target the same use case.