• Fapper_McFapper
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    1 year ago

    Is there porn on Lemmy? I’m not asking for scientific purposes or for a friend.

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      All of the main servers I’ve seen have a no porn rule. I suppose it’s only a matter of time until someone’s willing to stand up their own Lemmy porn server and take on the responsibility of moderating that.

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        I suggested to PornHub that they should host their own lemmy instance for porn. It’s stuck in limbo though awaiting mod approval.

        Edit: I’m curious, I see I’ve gotten two downvotes, can someone who downvoted provide a reason why? Just anti-porn sentiment? Do you not want porn on lemmy? Don’t like the company PornHub? Think it’s a stupid idea for some reason? I’m serious, I’d like to know why you seem to disagree with the suggestion that PornHub should host a lemmy instance explicitly to post porn on. It’s entirely possible I’m missing something here.

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          That is actually great idea, some organization hosting lemmy instance concerning their work.

          Like Debian hosting free software lemmy communities, some marketing agency hosting design and creative communities. That way instances can ve snallee and manageable.

          Of course it needs to get a bit more obvious how to use different instances.

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          Yeah that’d be smart on their part. They’re already paying for the server space and the moderation team.

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              The way Lemmy hosting works is that it you upload a picture though the new post form, you upload that file to your instance.

              That seems like kind of a problem/bad design. The actual text content of the post is stored on the other instance right? If the moderator of the other instance deletes your post, does the embedded media get deleted off your instance?

              This is not at all how I assumed this would work, and raises some questions about the value of federation if you’re going to end up needing to manage multiple logins on multiple instances in order to manage their various posting policies.

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                  Yeah, it was that last point that’s the sticking point. Like you I agree and would expect that when you post to a community you follow that communities guidelines, but since media apparently uploads to your instance not the instance hosting the community now you’re getting a 3rd party involved. If media was hosted on the same instance of the community I don’t think we’d have a problem and you wouldn’t need to worry about violating the posting guidelines of your home instance.

                  Personally, while I might create a “normal” account and a porn account, I definitely don’t want to feel like I have to do that. I think you should be able to create your account in any instance you want and post to any community you want (assuming said community isn’t on an instance which has had federation blocked from your home instance) without having to worry about the content rules of your home instance. I definitely think the embedded media handling needs to have a second look given to it.

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            This is an excellent question that I’ve also had. I think (don’t quote me on this) that it’s hosted on whatever instance the community is based out of.

            My understanding is that you’ve got essentially 3 different groups of things in lemmy. Users, communities, and posts/comments. Users are authenticated based on their home instance. Communities are stored on their home instance. Comments are stored in their associated community. When you post to a community on another instance, your post is transmitted to the other instance where it’s stored. The reason (generally) that porn is banned on most lemmy instances is because the maintainer of that instance doesn’t want the headache of having to moderate that content which is stored on their server. In the case of a federated instance though while the content might be cached on the server it isn’t technically stored there so I don’t think it runs into the same problems.

            Now, what I don’t know about, and someone who knows more about how the federation works hopefully does, is if the owner of an instance would ban federation with an instance hosting porn. Technically I think the owner of an instance can ban federation with any other instance, but I’m not sure they would go that far. I think it might depend on how good a job the other instance does of moderating their content. E.G. if as I suggested PornHub ran their own instance I don’t think most instances would be opposed to federating with it because presumably PornHub already does a good job of policing NSFW content they host. On the other hand if you found some sketchy instance that was hosting lets call it legally dubious content, the instance owner might just ban federation with that instance, in which case I think it’s communities would become inaccessible to you from your home instance. Of course you could make an account on that other instance and just sign in there, but that’s kind of a PITA.

            If your an expert on any of this and see somewhere I’ve got this wrong please correct me.

            • The Silence Noise@beehaw.org
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              Yes, I’ve definitely wondered about this and then also how your subscriptions work. Are they associated with your account or can you have multiple accounts logged in on the Jerboa app and see all of those subscriptions at once? I haven’t set up a second account yet to mess with that but am curious.

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                Subscriptions are tied to your account. You can have multiple accounts in Jerboa (even on multiple different instances) but each one is independent of the others. Anything your subscribed to in one is contained entirely in that one. You only see the subscriptions of the account you’re currently signed in to. All your accounts are listed on a popout and you can click on each one to switch which account you’re currently signed into. All your actions and everything you view are relative to the current account.

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                So the other comment chain in this thread. While I was correct in general apparently I was wrong in the specific case of embedded media. If you upload an image that gets stored on your home instance, not on the instance the community belongs on which is highly relevant to this discussion. Currently what exactly is meant by an instances “no NSFW content” rule is kind of ambiguous. Does that mean no creating NSFW communities, no posting NSFW posts/comments to any local communities, no subscribing to NSFW communities, or no posting to NSFW communities anywhere.