This may be more of an “out of the loop” thing, but I’m new to this site and I’m noticing that lemmy.world seems surprisingly bereft of any substantial NSFW content. I’m surprised! Isn’t the adage that porn motivates technological progress?

What’s even more surprising is that the NSFW instance seems brand spanking new.

Is there some code-of-conduct thing which has prevented NSFW community growth? Or is it just a demographic thing where there wasn’t much/any demand until the Reddit exodus?

  • Rhoeri@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It would be nice if all NSFW was annexed to their own instance and left out of generally populated ones. There’s no need for it to be side-by-side with generalized content.

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      1 year ago

      Funny thing is that AI tech is turning NSFW into one of the best starting points and introductions to the subject. I’m all for separating it, but the separation turns out to have its own complexities. After messing with some of the tools, a large chunk of NSFW is from Stable Diffusion. There are certain aspects that are hard to generate and only really apparent with some practice writing prompts. It is far easier to quantify the types of issues that arise from bad prompts using a human body where we are much better equip to detect very subtle mistakes at a glace once we know where to look. It is an easy path into using SD for other endeavors. Admittedly, it ruins a bit of the primal appeal, and totally flips the subject where you’re then browsing looking for clever prompting. Funny thing is, the like count often correlates with prompt cleverness rather than output. It is the primary driver of engagement.

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        1 year ago

        No idea what you’re talking about. It’s just picture of naked people. It needs to be in its own place.

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          1 year ago

          i agree, that comment reads like a fever dream. i have no idea what theyre talking about at all.

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            1 year ago

            https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stable_Diffusion

            This has the most basic guide to what is happening if you wish to crawl out from under that rock. It includes a built in SFW text to image prompt:

            https://stable-diffusion-art.com/beginners-guide/

            All one has to do is look at the NSFW images marked as being from AI and note the watermark to find where to generate images. Once you make a few, you’ll see small problems that are present in many other image categories. The main issues have to do with excluding certain prompt key words to make the output look real, then stuff like genitalia is not easy to get dialed in well unless you are running the software on your own hardware. This requires a powerful video card to generate the images and a lot of storage space. Once you know this a lot of images become obviously AI generated. There are aspects of lighting, eyes, fingers and toes, easy lighting text prompts and other small details that are harder to avoid in the image output. These start to stand out more once you know.

            This tech is moving very fast right now. The next iteration of Stable Diffusion is set to release this month and it will likely make it impossible to tell what is real and what is fake. Right now SD must start with a low res image, then it can be scaled higher. SDXL will be able to start with a high res image and modify details which has not been possible. With a bit of effort, it will be possible to modify video frame by frame and use a simple text prompt to alter details. I doubt people will do more than clips at first, but with some good scripting using Blender, I could see it working for larger projects.

            Follow the second posted link. And read it. This is FOSS. Combine this with an open source text to text LLVM running on native hardware and you have a real game changing set of technology.

            https://generativeai.pub/how-to-setup-and-run-privategpt-a-step-by-step-guide-ab6a1544803e

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              1 year ago

              They are talking about NSFW images in the fediverse. How does that correlate with AI-generated NSFW images?

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              1 year ago

              No one understands how your ramblings are relevant to the OP or even the comment you originally replied to is the thing

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    1 year ago

    From what I know there are a number of legal complications/liabilities to hosting NSFW content. For most people hosting instances it’s just not worth the hassle given that users can still interact with the NSFW communities on the dedicated instance.

  • 👁️👄👁️@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    It’d be better to post that stuff to lemmynsfw.com . Not only for organizational purposes, but lemmy.world may go anti-NSFW for whatever reason, where an instance dedicated to it won’t. Also for people who don’t want NSFW stuff in their All, they can simply block one instance and filter it all out. Whereas if it’s on .world , then they’d have to block each individual community.

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    1 year ago

    I think that’s a good thing. Different topics have different moderation needs and I think specialized instances will be better equipped to deal with those special needs. Communities being on separate instances is by design and we shouldn’t have an expectation for instances to do everything.

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    Most (all?) Lemmy instances are hosted by individuals doing it for personal interest. I assume many admins don’t want the legal liability of random users possibly posting illegal NSFW material.

    I think it’s partly a demographic thing, too. lemmynsfw.com came into existence with the initial Reddit exodus, as did most Lemmy instances. Lemmy was apparently a pretty quiet place until three weeks ago.

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      Lol yeah this place was nuts before the exodus. It was mostly marxists simping for Mao and Stalin and you’d regularly find 2yo posts at the top. Couldn’t convince anyone else to join either because they’d go check it out, see people claiming that the holodomor, tienanmen square, and the armenian genocide never happened, and support for “the Z warriors” who are “fighting ukranian nazis and western imperialism,” and understandably they’d nope right the fuck out.

      I’m so fucking glad all of you came to this platform to make it usable. Seriously, thank each and every one of you.

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          1 year ago

          Old man time

          Weeellll I just migrated here from lemmy.ml but that acct is probably 2y old by now. There’s graybeards here older than me that I still bump into every so often too! Back then it was so slow the most populated communities (well, I avoided the communist ones, so the most popular “normal” ones like c/linux or c/memes) had like 30 users a month, most communities like c/books had much less. One single dude posted almost all of the stuff in c/worldnews and a few other communities lol. Shit was kinda wild, but I’m definitely glad for the reddit exodus bringing new life in! You dern kids stay on my lawn!

  • tRFRmrNe8Nj2Kimc@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I’m having the opposite experience. I filter by “all” and I am flooded with NSFW content. Been blocking individual communities, but I don’t know if I can just block the lemmynsfw instance(I’m using Jerboa).

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      1 year ago

      So many scat porn out there! I don’t mind seeing nsfw stuff but poop stuff is a bit too much in the morning with my coffee.

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        1 year ago

        Lol that’s wild I haven’t seen anything like that. What is your default home page filter? I can’t imagine that rising up very far on Hot or Active haha

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    It’s better to separate nsfw into their own instances, because then admins who don’t want porn on their Lemmy servers can just block the offending instance.

    Also, try https://pornlemmy.com .