AwoosWhenClose

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[–] AwoosWhenClose@yiffit.net 1 points 2 years ago

... Yeah, I'm really scared and terrified at what the government will require. Especially when it comes to social media services like Discord and others (which it has in its sights). Hopefully nothing will come of it and the internet can go back to what it used to be...

Fuck I'm messed up psychologically. ;_;

[–] AwoosWhenClose@yiffit.net 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Okay, wow. Thanks to everyone for responding, I appreciate it. To be honest, I wasn't expecting it to be quite so negative about the whole thing. I don't know why I wasn't expecting that, considering that we are a group of people that moved from a pro-privacy platform because it wasn't pro-privacy enough. But anyway.

I think that... Honestly, this being commonplace is going to be inevitable. The global mindset around this is changing, and even though we may fight against it, it feels to me to be an inevitability. Maybe I'm wrong. I hope I'm wrong. But I'm not optimistic.

I mean, I hate it and it sucks, but honestly at this point I'd probably go through with this kind of verification. Assuming I could trust the sites or third party authentication or whatever. I guess my fear of loosing access beats my desire for privacy... And besides, I already pay for stuff on Patreon, so my identity isn't exactly secret.

One way of doing this privately I did see people suggest (and I think was being looked at by my government?) was the following:

  • You buy a card with a code from an IRL shop (who does the age checks with a driving license or whatever), which is valid for 24 hours.
  • You make an account with an identity provider using this code (maybe they'll also want other information as well, because of course they will).
  • With this account, you can then generate any number of random single use codes to give to adult sites to log in. They won't be able to see any of your account details, but they can use it to verify only that you are over 18.

(Of course, I know this isn't exactly perfect but it's hopefully good enough)

Hopefully a standard like that can arise, but I assume most third party identity providers will probably just use images of IDs and photographs. At least they promise to delete them afterwards, and I (perhaps naively) trust that most of them will.

Still, on the upside, if Telegram and Discord do go through with this and use proper third party identity services, they can hopefully allow you to share that with servers you're in, which means they don't have to do their own verification (which they'll do sloppily).

Personally, I hope Mastodon and Lemmy integrate support for these third party age verification services rather than pulling out of certain countries on principle.

Anyway, enough devils advocate and hoping that everything will be fine and work out in the end. Downvote away!

[–] AwoosWhenClose@yiffit.net 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Checking the people I follow on my AD Masto, most people seem to on yiff.life , meow.social or rubber.social , so those instances might be worth looking at (although I have a personal and perhaps petty grevance with meow for defeding the first instance I was on).

Content warnings are, as mentioned, also really important. Just remember some people have text based autofilter rules to filter out things, so don't try to be too fancy with wording.

If you want to maximise reach, remember to use hashtags! Many users use them to find content (you can follow hashtags). If you're a furry artist, consider #furry and #furryart . And as a convenience for those that want to filter it out, consider #nsfw as well.

If you want to cross post to a Lemmy community as well, you can include something like:

CC: @communityname@instance

In the post body, and it'll get automatically submitted to the appropriate community.

[–] AwoosWhenClose@yiffit.net 1 points 2 years ago

Decided to make a new community request for it; !stories@yiffit.net is now a thing!

[–] AwoosWhenClose@yiffit.net 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So, in a comment that is now lost to time, I mentioned frustration at Lemmy not having an instance block feature.

Decided to check, and it looks like it's actively being worked on https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3869 .

Doubt it'll help with defederation (since we are mostly a porn instance after all), but would be good for the common yiff fearing user.

[–] AwoosWhenClose@yiffit.net 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I know I shouldn't engage, but you are right. Not everyone wants to see furry porn on their all feed. And as a moderator of a porn community I'd like to have the ability to say "you know what, I'd rather posts be unlisted and not appear in the all feed". Maybe even if I were running my own instance I could block some of the more riskier communities.

But none of these tools exist yet, unlisted posts and per-user instance wide blocklists would be really nice features. If you don't like this sort of content, you could just mute yiffit.net and go on with your life.

There are two established major porn lemmy instances, both of which are blocked by lemmy.ml. If they saw this as a problem IMO they should implement instance blocking as a priority. But they haven't, and decided that blocking access to people is the better option. The situation is getting super frustrating at this point.

[–] AwoosWhenClose@yiffit.net 10 points 2 years ago

Honestly probably not that surprising considering they seem to be very anti-porn and I think are the only major instance to actually block you from looking at NSFW content (which makes me wonder how porn got there in the first place, did someone forget to tag something?).

For better or worse, I'm kind of glad that lemmy.world emerged as the big superinstance rather than lemmy.ml, they seem to be a bit more generalist.

[–] AwoosWhenClose@yiffit.net 3 points 2 years ago

Besides a private instance with federation disabled (and even then), I don't think Lemmy is really designed for private communities. Even in NSFW communities, guest users can still see the posts if they have direct links to them, or use a non-lemmy fediverse viewer ( https://mastodon.social/@gfur@yiffit.net ).

Even if there was a way to do it (perhaps with a Lemmy fork), you also have to trust that any instances users are on also comply with your requests. Depending on your requirements for privacy, this may not be something you want to rely on.

Is this even a desirable feature Yiffit turned on, or is it just a quirk of how Lemmy works? It certainly hurts discoverability of content here, IMO.

[–] AwoosWhenClose@yiffit.net 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

@Wander@yiffit.net figure I may as well mention something here. https://yiffit.net/post/20 Lists !stories@yiffit.net as a community, but that community doesn't seem to actually exist. (Might also be worth updating that post to point to !newcommunities@yiffit.net ).

And yeah, I'd love an e621 but for erotica. Tagging would be so nice for written works.

[–] AwoosWhenClose@yiffit.net 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

89%. Y'all a bunch of degenerates. :P

[–] AwoosWhenClose@yiffit.net 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'd define bestiality as "having sex with a living creature which does cannot consent to sexual acts in the same way that humans can".

Human/anthro and human/feral don't fit those criteria, because anthros and ferals can understand and consent to human norms (Well, I assume ferals can. Don't really know much about them). What I'm concerned about is what the difference between "man having sex with an animal dog" and "man having sex with a furry feral dog" is.

More generally, if I drew a picture of an animal dog, what separates it from a picture of a realistic feral?

[–] AwoosWhenClose@yiffit.net 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)
  1. It's a useful tool to give a quick guideline on how consent works; if something passes the harkness test, it's a good sign that there won't be moral issues with having (hypothetical) sex acts with them.
  2. Agreed. Although it still makes me feel greatly unconfortable.
  3. No, anthros (and ferals) have the ability to give consent. Anthros also generally appear very human like, and so there is the implicit understanding that they have human-like society and language.
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