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1 year agoI get that a lot of furry stuff isn’t everyone’s cup of tea. Yeah, I’ve seen some pretty weird fetishes over the years that I don’t really understand the appeal of. But I’m actually kind of surprised this is even an issue that people are worried about, at least to a degree that is worth mentioning. This stuff seems quite tame in comparison to some of the early internet forums of old. And at the end of the day, this is all fictional. If the ones viewing it are mature adults, it hurts literally no one. The drawings don’t have feelings.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Lemmy is a fantastic Reddit clone, and federation is great for persistence, but it completely lacks nuance in how content is delivered. Defederation is only going to further fragment the platform. No one is going to be totally happy with it until the onus is primarily on the individual, rather than the community or instance.
As a user, I want choice. Give me settings. Give me more control. Then if I see something I don’t like, or something I’d rather change, that’s on me. That sounds much better than hoping and waiting for a level-headed admin to figure it out for me, or making yet another account when they get it wrong.
We’ll never get anywhere if all the admins are afraid of getting on everyone else’s “bad side” for content they can barely control themselves.