If it could get me in trouble at work if someone saw it over my shoulder, it should be marked NSFW
this post was submitted on 14 Nov 2025
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That's fair. That's what initially made me mark them. I think my understanding of NSFW might be more stringent than most, as others have mentioned that users can always block the more graphic stuff if they think it would be an issue.
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There is an option to not see NSFW posts in the lemmy settings, so not only will some people not look at them, others will never even see them.
I'd the content is in images, maybe put the image in the body of the post within a spoiler tag rather than flagging the post nsfw.
I have this enabled, lemmy has had spam waves that I really don’t need on my phone if I check at work
Most of the content is in embedded videos. The two in question are from tiktok and from a twitch clip. Not sure how they appear in other clients but in mine I have to click them to open the full screen
Still something that could be put into a spoiler tag.
I looked at your profile to look at the content in question, but either I have the community blocked, or my instance is defederated from its host instance.
Followup I forgot to ask, do you mean to put the links in the body in spoiler tags, or can that be done in the "link" part of the form?
In the body in the spoiler tag
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Edit: it's "gore/gross" not NSFL
Piefed has NSFW and NSFL
You might consider migrating the community from Lemmy to a Piefed instance to be able to use that feature
Respectfully, I don't think that this answers the question.
OP has the issue that people are not seeing NSFW posts as most users block NSFW
Piefed allows to distinguish between NSFW and "gore/gross"
At this stage, there are three options
- Keep using NSFW and get low activity on those posts
- Stop using NSFW and getting user backlash from seeing graphic content in All
- Switch the community to a Piefed instance
So are you proposing that OP marks such posts as NSFL instead? Do posts marked as NSFL get more engagement than posts marked NSFW? You could be correct, but I don't think that it's obvious from your comment how your suggestion solves the issue.
Right, I think the NSFL tag indicates something more extreme than NSFW, so if someone is blocking the latter, they're most likely blocking the former.
That's what I thought too, but I could be wrong.
I don't think you're wrong and feel that your comments have been entirely reasonable and appropriate to the topic at hand.
I've seen people ok with gore but not porn
Those people are weird, and unless the NSFW and NSFL tags can both be applied to the same post at the same time, this solution ignores the significant overlap that can happen between them (i.e., a lot of NSFL is also NSFW and vice-versa). I still think that the vast majority of people who filter out NSFW will also filter out NSFL.
Thanks, good to know that they can both be applied and that "NSFL" is labeled as gore/gross.
I still don't think that doing this would really address the OP's issue because the other thing to consider is that even though this tag option is available in Piefed, I expect that it would have absolutely no effect on Lemmy instances, which are the majority of the Threadiverse.
It's not the first time a similar issue is raised, which is why Piefed implemented that feature.
Same for crossposts comments consolidation, user and posts flairs, keyword filters...
Those issues get raised regularly, the current solution is to use Piefed to solve them.
Cool, thanks. I hope that Lemmy eventually implements that tag too and makes it interoperable with the Piefed one, because as it is currently, this solution would only be a solution for users seeing the post from Piefed itself and wouldn't address the majority of users.
Lemmy's development compared to Piefed is quite slow. Piefed reached feature parity with Lemmy only one year and a half after starting, and now it has a lot more features.
Feature fragmentation happens all the time, Mastodon didn't have quote replies for a very long time, most of the Misskey forks had it.
People who want to use those features move to the platform which supports them.
Every time someone posts that a feature from Lemmy is missing while it exists in Piefed, people are going to tell that person to migrate to Piefed.
And it's okay, quite a few people probably don't need a "gore" filter or personal feeds. But for the ones who do, the option is there.
Fair enough, thanks.
Thank you! That is a nice feature, though I think my issue is more that I find it on the border of NSFW, not really close to NSFL. So don't know if that will quite be what I need
If you think it's bordering NSFW, then just don't tag it as such.
You'll see soon if people complain.
Back before piefed I used to skip nsfw as it was so often so annoying as I definately have a much higher bar for nsfw. For me it has to have straight out nudity at a minimum. A scantily clad figure that could be haning out at a beach is not nsfw for me. Saw this a lot in thighentology. Its like nsfw is not merely a sexy picture. Anyway one reason I went with piefed was the many options which include not bluring nsfw so now I don't care.
not bluring nsfw
Lemmy has that setting as well, no?
maybe. I was on mbin at the time. Its not the only thing I liked with piefed but it was one. Honestly one thing was it has been pretty active with development overall. For important things Im an lts type but for this media type things I am much more give me the bleeding edge alpha.
Yeah, there are quite a few things still missing
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Honestly, NSFW will be ignored or hidden by filters for most people because the assumption is that it is porn; which is ironic because we've mostly become so numb to violent content (given the amount of movies, games, written stories, TV shows). If the community doesn't require you to mark those posts as NSFW, I would not. I expect that screenshots from Dead by Daylight to be graphic in nature, communities can be blocked if the content isn't desired by a user.
Luckily they aren't screenshots so at least in my client they require a separate click to open. They do get graphic in some animations though. Thank you for mentioning the blocks. I do that all the time, but didn't think about that being an object when I'm contributing 😂
You're welcome, it's very easy to not remember that blocking is a thing when contributing; as there is a different mindset when it comes to contribution to increase growth and activity, in comparison to simply browsing communities.
Most people see NSFW and assume porn, if you’re in the dbd community some bloody gameplay is to be expected imo
Fair enough! Thank you, I expected that not to be as popular a view on beehaw, so I am happy to see users all over seem to be chill with it
NSFW content will see low/no interaction because of the restrictive default settings of clients (especially on mobile). NSFW won't show up by default, there's no notice about it being filtered, and the settings for the filter are either tucked away deep in the specific client settings or don't even exist... For example, I'm using Interstellar on iOS, and ALL NSFW are filtered, with no option to turn it off - and the fedia.io option of "hide NSFW", even though I disabled it, doesn't apply.
And most users won't be bothered to go this far to see content they don't even know about. I'd guesstimate a good 80% of your visitors will be in the same predicament, not seeing NSFW thus not knowing about it thus not bothering to look for it thus never seeing content you mark as such.
And in my opinion, this simple binary toggle isn't even the right ah of filtering content. For example, I don't mind "sensitive" content that isn't explicitly sexual in my main feed. A lot of topics I'd like to read about can be considered "sensitive", aka "hide from your kids", but isn't generally problematic even in a work environment. On the other hand I do mind sexual content on my feed that makes it impossible to use the Fediverse at work, especially when the client has no option to quickly disable/enable showing these types of posts.
A better option would be a type selection for the "sensitive" marker, with explicit topics like "content warning: sexual assault" or "sexual content" or "content warning: dead bodies depicted" etc., then let the users filter based on what they're comfortable with. Grouping everything under a "sensitive content" label just makes it worse because you can't know what's gonna be under the blur - a penis? a dead body? a rotting corpse?
This is a good point. Labels might be tough in terms of new users and moderator labor, but would definitely make a much better experience for fine-grained preferences
I'd also like to have the "hey we're actually hiding some content due to regulatory requirements but you can disable that filter here and here" notice prominently delivered to users - but then again that's up to individual clients unfortunately...
I just blocked a community over a big-breasted cartoon character smushed up against something else because filters don't save when you web browse and clear data on exit, and I never know who's going to be around, working or not. I don't need my 8 year old nephew seeing that content.
Oh my god that's disgusting.
Which community was it?
I'm asking for a friend (He goes to a different school, you don't know him).
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