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I registered a Bluesky account not too long ago and noticed shortly after a regular appearance of gay and furry nsfw content. The NSFW setting was turned off, s
by yupyupyups 1y ago
I registered a Bluesky account not too long ago and noticed shortly after a regular appearance of gay and furry nsfw content. The NSFW setting was turned off, so these accounts are for whatever reason neglecting to tag their content properly.
Telling Bluesky that I'm not interested in "this type of content" didn't help remove the problem. Blocking/Reporting the accounts is futile, as they are so numerous. Moderation lists for LGBT/furry content seem to be nonexistent or unlisted from public modlist sites (maybe they are considered to be "homophobic"?)
Anyway, Bluesky does't seem to be safe-for-work, so it's hardly a proper replacement for Twitter. If this is fixed, then that would be good.
- Leynos 1y agoRegular appearance as in posted by the people you follow?
- yupyupyups 1y agoNope, I didn't follow anything of the sort.
- Leynos 1y agoSo how did the content appear in your feed?
- Bric3d 1y agoLikely using the "discover" or "popular with friends" feeds, not sure why one would do that to themselves on either bluesky or twitter.
- IAmGraydon 1y agoDo you use social media? You seem unaware of how it’s worked for over a decade.
- Leynos 1y agoNormally, I need to follow someone on BlueSky to see their content or content shared by them. It doesn't inject recommendations into my feed.
- ilikehurdles 1y agoThe discover feed of bsky on a blank account with no follows or followers or likes had lots of this stuff when I tried it.
- Leynos 1y agoThat makes sense. My discover feed is pretty much all Scottish politics and tech.
- jghn 1y agoI have since the early days. And I avoid algorithmic feeds. So I don’t get furry porn she. I read bsky. Or X. Or Insta. These are non-problems for people who don’t allow them to be
- JeremyNT 1y agoWhy on earth is this downvoted? I have an identical question. The default method of operation on Bluesky is that you follow people you are interested in, and only the people you follow show up in your feed.
- dpkirchner 1y ago> Why on earth is this downvoted? I have an identical question. Feigning misunderstanding is a weird look.
- JeremyNT 1y agoSpell out what you are implying. I have no idea what the originator of this thread was doing to end up in their situation. I've seen nothing like it on bluesky. Maybe it's obvious to you and others why it happened, but it's not to all of us, and down voting people for asking this question doesn't make is any clearer.
- Leynos 1y agoThe way BlueSky is structured, you have to follow people to see their content in your feed. Hence my confusion. Other people have pointed out that the "Discover" feed with a fresh account may show material that the OP finds unappealing and that people have failed to report as untagged NSFW content.
- w0de0 1y agoIt’s fixed. There were a few weeks in which I noticed this as well. No longer.
- yupyupyups 1y agoThanks, I will try it out again. I will be ready with the app delete button in case any inflate furry porn appears though.
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- KingMob 1y agoI still get NSFW catgirls in my "Cats" feed. It's better, but not perfect.
- goyagoji 1y agoCats are inherently NSFW, you will need to switch to a dogs feed. (Though husky feeds are strangely NSFW too.)
- hopelite 1y ago[flagged]
- chuckSu 1y agoI tried registering a new account using my real name a few weeks ago (I have never used blue sky before this) and within 5 minutes got an email saying my account is suspended for spam behaviour that violates community guidelines. I hadn’t even posted anything with the account yet. I appealed but my appeal has seemingly gone into a black hole somewhere.
- suppers 1y agoI noticed the same, which was off-putting, but not as much as how dull it is, and how badly the "nuclear block" feature ruins conversations. Can't really see a future for Bluesky outside of the niche communities that are already established there.
- ChocolateGod 1y ago[flagged]
- closewith 1y agoDo I want to know what that means?
- Loughla 1y agoPedophiles. They call themselves Minor Attracted Persons to try to square their pedophilia in their own heads.
- suppers 1y agoWikipedia had that problem for a while too, to the point where some of the pedophiles were Wikipedia admins, and were softening the language in pages discussing pedophiles and pedophilia. https://web.archive.org/web/20080915002726/http://www.wikisposure.com/Wikipedia_Campaign https://web.archive.org/web/20080915002726/http://www.wikisp...
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- OneDeuxTriSeiGo 1y ago[flagged]
- ChocolateGod 1y agoI'm left wing and I've certainly seen the term 'MAP' being used by the left more than the right. That said, last time I logged into Bluesky was ~6 months ago.
- woadwarrior01 1y ago> Anyway, Bluesky does't seem to be safe-for-work, so it's hardly a proper replacement for Twitter. If this is fixed, then that would be good. I'm not a Bluesky user. Twitter has exactly the same problem. I've got the NSFW setting turned off. And I've reported a lot of accounts posting unflagged NSFW content, mostly videos. And every time I get this slop reply email from them after a few minutes: Thanks for reporting <account_name> and for using your voice to make X better for everyone. After review, we want to let you know <account_name> hasn't broken our sensitive media rule. We allow sensitive content — like consensually produced adult content, graphic imagery and violence — in posts as long as it doesn't break our sensitive media policy. I suspect they let these accounts slide because they value the user (or bot) engagement these accounts generate over safety/moderation.
- yupyupyups 1y agoOn other platforms I tend to not use algorithmic feeds that much, and so I don't encounter that problem. That's because I already know some good accounts. But on Bluesky, I'm new, and I want to get a feel for what's out there, so the Discover feature has been interesting for that purpose. But using it will quickly lead to the types of content that I mentioned, and I don't think users should have to tolerate this until they find interesting accounts to follow and move on to more controlled feeds. With that said, from the limited experience I've had with Twitter/X's algorithmic feeds, they haven't been that explicit. But that's my anecdote.
- anotherpaul 1y agoYes, same experience. I only read posts from people I follow, which solves this problem. But of course this is a slow way to grow my network. But I like the slow linearity of the timeline this way.
- slowmovintarget 1y agoThis is how things would (and ought to) work without a social media algorithm pushing engagement. It's a better way. It's a shame you have to push through people making some sexual fetish the centerpiece of their online identity. That speaks volumes for the lack of maturity for the people behaving this way. Granted the scientists heading over to BlueSky are predominantly doing so for ideological reasons, not for "effectiveness." Sean Carroll, for example, both an excellent scientist and perhaps the best science communicator out there, has declared for BlueSky, but it's largely because of his political views. Sean is a committed Democrat and his ideological in-group has declared for BlueSky. Not content to waste an opportunity, that in-group is spinning this sort of thing as "Science (TM)" is moving to BlueSky. But it's really just moving to a comfortable echo chamber.
- de6u99er 1y agoSince I started reporting them ad "Unwanted sexual content" I am seeing significantly less half naked persons desperately begging for sttention. But there's still the issue of all the comic and manga crap labeled as art. Bluesky needs to correctly identify and relabel those as comics and manga. Would be nice if others would report them too, because there are kids on BlueSky and they don't need to see their uncles/aunts or neighbors sticking their butt into a camera.
- ants_everywhere 1y ago> there's still the issue of all the comic and manga crap labeled as art I'm not into comics or manga, but surely they're art? And I mean this quite aside from the annoyance of seeing them when you don't want to. I'm not saying you should have to see them. It just doesn't seem right to imply that you shouldn't have to see them because they're not art.
- titusjohnson 1y agoThe problem with Art is Art is whatever the Artist says it is. There is no concrete definition of Art, it is wholy subjective to the perspectives of the creator and the appreciator. Comics & Manga certainly fall under the umbrella of art in a strict sense, they are first and foremost Comics & Manga. Colloquially when people say Art they mean what they see in a museum, not what they can buy in the corner store. When I subscribe to a generic Art category I want to see artists showing techniques, cool paintings, breakdowns of how marble was carved, and most certainly not catgirl uwu. I might be interested in a post about how comics are made (high effort, interesting content), but I am not interested in a picture from issue #346 (low effort fandom attraction).
- DoctorOW 1y ago> When I subscribe to a generic Art category I want to see artists showing techniques, cool paintings, breakdowns of how marble was carved I think the root issue is that a generic category is inherently not opinionated.
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- baggachipz 1y ago> Bluesky does't seem to be safe-for-work, so it's hardly a proper replacement for Twitter. Is twitter SFW? I constantly hear about "mechahitler" and all sorts of terrible bigotry, language, and dog whistles. I may be ignorant because I refuse to even go on there.
- dkiebd 1y agoI do not have an account on twitter but I’m sure you hear more about “mechahitler” on here than on twitter
- esseph 1y agoIt was on the front page of most of the worlds news. If it's not discussed on twitter, there's a good chance that topic is suppressed.
- slowmovintarget 1y agoI don't know what you mean by "not discussed on twitter." That's where it happened. There were follow up posts, including explanations of who and what goaded that particular output stream for Grok. There was also an incessant stream of memes by people making fun of Grok, Elon, and X (all of it allowed). The fact that LLMs become what is projected on them, in this case from outrage over a leftist saying how glad she was that white children died in a flood, was twisted to fit a narrative by the media. It was not suppressed. That woman did get her account nuked, but that was because of her own violations of the ToS.
- esseph 1y agoMaybe you should re-read again what I was responding to They said: > I do not have an account on twitter but I’m sure
- SomeUserName432 1y ago> Is twitter SFW? I'd rate twitter about as safe-for-work as 4chan.
- SnuffBox 1y agoYou'll never find any moderation lists for the people who are the main users of the site. It'd take far, far too long to create it anyways. Have you considered that it might not be worth it using social media at all?
- fred_is_fred 1y agoI joined to try to re-follow the tech community that was lost when Elon lost it. All I get now is 24/7 non stop Trump complaints. I get it, but it adds no value to my life. I certainly don't look forward to opening the app and hearing them. I've tried blocking the terms and even unfollowing people, but to no avail. Now I just never use the app.
- Arubis 1y agoAgreed that better filtering would help greatly in making Bluesky more work-safe. (By contrast, ActivityPub’s communities do a decent job self-filtering, but that community is also more self-selecting at present.) That said: furries are the internet’s coal mine canary. They’re one of the more visually prominent marginalized internet communities, and one of the first to get deplatformed when capital steps in. If you’re on a platform where furries are thriving, you’re probably in a safe space. Cf. the history of Tumblr, Twitter, Blogger, etc.
- barbazoo 1y agoHow does that work? Would they lose access to the platform? Has that happened actually?
- DoctorOW 1y agoGenerally, yes. If NSFW content is removed, it's incredibly common to see furry and LGBTQ content rolled into that. Furry themed account will be treated as a "repeat offender" even though they weren't really offenders to begin with.
- dawnerd 1y agoThat’s what I’ve heard from basically everyone I know personally. They get the app sign up and just a flood of furry content. Bluesky really needs to figure out a better default curated feed if they’re gonna just recommend content like that.
- JeremyNT 1y ago> I registered a Bluesky account not too long ago and noticed shortly after a regular appearance of gay and furry nsfw content. The NSFW setting was turned off, so these accounts are for whatever reason neglecting to tag their content properly. What... are you doing with the app exactly??? Do you not curate a list of accounts you follow? To counter your anecdote: I've literally never seen anything like what you describe. I follow the people I'm interested in who post things I find of interest. I've occasionally (only occasionally) clicked on the "discover" tab, but it also does not show the sorts of things you described.
- mock-possum 1y agoGay furry nsfw content you say - well shit, maybe I’ve been sleeping on bluesky.