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MFW I figured out who the general audience of Lemmy is..... (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by Awesomo85@sh.itjust.works to c/general@lemmy.world

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I've been using a 3rd party client to access posts on Lemmy. I loved the experience back when Reddit allowed 3rd party apps. But I felt the feed was a bit........one sided.

I figured it was just because I was new to Lemmy, but then I sorted posts by New.

Nothing but trans anime porn. It's like the only people that came to Lemmy were the people that got kicked out of Reddit circles because all they could think about was trans anime porn.

Maybe I signed up on the wrong instance? But I don't think that's the problem.

How are so many people trying to treat Lemmy as a balanced alternative to Reddit?

What the fuck?!

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[–] dingus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Honestly, it's kind of obnoxious that you're inundated with porn by default in "all". I mean, it's fine if people are into that, but it's not necessarily what every user wants to deal with blocking when the are a new user. Some might just erroneously assume the whole platform is just a porn site and leave if that isn't what they want. I have blocked a shitton of porn communities because I'm not interested in that, but there are a hell of a lot of them. I'm glad instance blocking became a thing because prior to that I had a zillion communities blocked.

Would just nice for the default to be different is all. I get why some people are immediately super turned off by using Lemmy because of stuff like that.

Again, I'm not trying to say porn is necessarily bad, but it's a bit jarring when that's not what you came here for and when it's not what the platform is "advertised" as. It's like if Grandma tries to join Facebook to stay connected to people but when she first logs in there's just porn all over her feed. Obviously that doesn't happen there. I'm just trying to paint a picture.