If I interpret this comment and this comment correctly, this may be a feature of PieFed that automatically (or with a checkbox?) announces new communities to this one, so the people who are doing this might not be completely aware that this is what they are doing and might end up not reading this post.
this post was submitted on 20 Feb 2026
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That was my interpretation as well.
Multiple different accounts and their posts are all formatted exactly the same, so this does seem to be the case.
This is probably something that the instance admins can change.
Edit: It seems like they're looking into it.
...why are they any different than any other community you don't care about? There aren't pictures included in the announcements, and you can easily scroll past the post.
There was one for spanking that absolutely did have a picture
Puritans always want the world to cater to them
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Why not just tag the posts NSFW and let users filter out NSFW posts if they don’t want to see them?
Nah it's more than thst. Some of us want to see nsfw stuff occasionally but not have our feed filled up with shout-outs to various niche porn communities.
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I was slightly critical of this post and tone, buuuut after checking all the recent posts...it is quite excessive.
I think the general post about the new instance is perfect, and maybe including a link to a nsfw specific 'new communities' sub that's part of the new instance.
Yep. It's not about policing or moralising but that this is getting out of hand with spamming of all the porn communities that of course are super important for their creators.
I'm fine with it
and I think that it improves searchability to have one per community, rather than some bulk post -- but the posts need to be marked NSFW, and some of the announcement posts are not, which means that people who have NSFW stuff blocked are still getting them. I think that that's the real problem.
My understanding is that this is something of an exceptional situation, as apparently lemmynsfw.com
the biggest NSFW community host on the Threadiverse
went down and the admin was supposed to be away for some months, so it's not coming back up in at least the near future, and so it sounds like people are setting up alternatives on other instances.
I think it is too reductive that NSFW means porn. It could be nudity in arts or otherwise graphic topics or imagery that you don't want to engage with in every situation. I follow several arts communities that frequently have NSFW post without them being pornographic or even sexual but flagged because some people browse social media where such still would be frowned upon. I think the Fediverse would benefit from having multiple flags for porn, nudity, gore, common triggers and so on instead of just one
Ah, so your porn is fine and everyone outside your kinks is a perverted freak who should be ashamed of themselves? Eat a dildo, hypocrite wanker.
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whats the point of this community if not to announce new communites? I don't see anything in the right side bar about it. I would think you would bring it up with the mods to put a rule in and maybe change the name to new puritan compliant communities.
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I checked quickly and I agree but the way you say it is clearly an issue to me. You seem really judging + you fall into every ragebait... nevermind I hope you will be heard 'cause it's boring yeah.
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The death of lemmynsfw has made it a lot harder to quarantine gooner communities to one easy to block instance :<
These communities are all coming from a new nsfw instance
TF happened to Lemmynsfw? I hadn't noticed yet.
Server went offline and the admin with access to the hosting has disappeared.
Crazy that this is controversial even though those 26 posts from yesterday were all heavily downvoted. Maybe commenters aren't representative
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None of the images from these new subs are loading for me so it's double-pointless!
You might try changing the sort or filter to new or hot. Mine was defaulted to active I think, and no posts loaded until I adjusted sorting.
Like Lemmynsfw before it, you have to sub and view the content from your local instance, or make an account on the nsfw instance, it seems.
Ughhhh, that's so stupid. Well, thanks for the answer anyway!
I think it'll only be a problem for a week anyhow.
oh god! why did you tell me! I can't control myself anymore! I'm on a train right now!
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Would it make sense to ban NSFW communities here, and let them start a separate announcement community for those?
Or they could just tag them NSFW and we could filter that way
Lemmy doesn't offer a community-specific NSFW filter. It's all or nothing, and "NSFW" is a broad category that includes other things in other communities that people do want to continue seeing.
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An upside of the porn spam is that it linked me to what new instance to block before it became an issue. I don't like blurring nsfw by default for artistic nudity or non-porn nsfw content, but I also don't like my global feed to be half porn, so I find blocking the instance to be a good enough solution.
But where my big mommy milkers at
Does FediNSFW have an equivalent community? It does kinda make sense to at least temporarily block these posts, and maybe sticky a link there instead.
They could and should just make their own "NEW COMMUNITIES" community/ meta community for discussion around the whole instance
Yeah, exactly.
Places on the internet that allow porn have a way of becoming all porn, and that's what seems to be happening here.
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thanks, i'm going to reply with a screenshot of this thread anytime anyone asks me what's going on over on lemmy
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