I seriously. I’m for realiously. I got like 8 different furry subs in my block list and filtered out terms like ‘yiff’ etc. You’d think the algorithm would have picked up that I’m not interested in that shit but I still can’t scroll a half hour without a wolf boner adorning my screen.
I know I can simply block all NSFW content but that’d just be throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
Theres no algorithm lol
Welcome to the old internet.
There is no algorithm. Lemmy doesn’t “figure out” anything.
There is lots of furry porn.
We love you.
There is no “algorithm” in the common use of the word - there is no machine learning black box running what you see, if you can read source code you can see exactly what it’s doing: see the listing types, and how those types are used and sorted. Either you’ve subscribed to a furry community (I’m assuming not if you’re complaining about it), or you’re on all and seeing the content because other users are upvoting it.
The site is filled with furry porn because the internet is filled with porn and this site is filled with furries.
How do you get all the furry porn? I’ve been here for two years and barely see any.
If you don’t see anything at !transyiff@lemmy.blahaj.zone or !yiff@pawb.social then you probably have NSFW content hidden in your settings.
Try https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=furry&nsfw=true for some other communities.
It’s an honour for my community to even be mentioned.
Yeah turning off nsfw filters and searching “furry” or “yiff” is probably the best bet to find anything.
Filtering your feed isn’t anybody’s job but yours. If you want to be spoonfed and controlled, that’s what big tech does.
Because IT people run Lemmy, and IT people are surprisingly often furries.
Also there is no “algorithm” in the way people usually mean it. For better or worse, there is just a few basic ways of sorting your feed.
Finally, in my entire 3 years on here, I’ve never seen any NSFW furry stuff. Now, I rarely ever use the global feed, and my instance isn’t a general purpose mega-instance, so that probably plays a large part in it.
Is there? I never noticed. I never blocked anything, but then again, I only see what I subscribe to.
Which is the second point: there isn’t an algorithm. No need to block anything, just pick what you do want to subscribe to and ignore the rest.
And more importantly, where can I find it
I haven’t seen a single furry anything, or any type of porn for that matter.
https://lemmyverse.net/communities?nsfw=true
Subscribe to a few communities on there and you will.
No need to subscribe, just browse all and every now and then there’s someone methed up and horny and the new of all is filled with nsfw posts.
As long as they’re in one community it’s not hard to block but idk if I can personally block instances. I’m sure it’s possible but eh. But I don’t want to put nsfw filter on either as not all nsfw is porn.
I exclusively browse by all and have only blocked two instances and have no furry porn. This seems to be a .world issue with whatever you’re federated with.
I have no idea what youre talking about. I havent seen a single furry porn since I joined like a year ago…
Edit: 2 years ago
Lol try BlueSky if you think there is a lot here.
I got it all blocked and then someone spun up like 30 AI porn communities and I had to block those too…
I feel like sisyphus on this site. Especially with that guy who has 1 million different accounts all on different instances but with the same name.
And weirdly, you have to be more specific than that!
Filter your home Feed by Subscribed only, not All so you’ll be sure to only see the stuff you want to see.
That’s how I use Piefed/Lemmy and if it was not for that filtering tool, I would have given up a long time ago… Too much noise and too much weird stuff ;)
Yeah, I just don’t think that trying to view everything posted to the Threadiverse and blacklisting what one doesn’t want to see is really something that will scale.
Like, imagine viewing a combined feed of every Web page that someone puts up anywhere on the Web. That’s got a lot more volume than the Threadiverse does in 2026. The signal-to-noise ratio is just going to be unworkable.
Maybe someday, someone will build a recommendation system that profiles users and tries to suggest what they want, but I’m pretty bearish on the prospect of individually-curated killfiles. It didn’t scale on Usenet and that had clients with more-powerful blacklisting functionality than do Threadiverse clients in 2026.
I really think that as of 2026, the most-scalable route is whitelisting what one does want to see. Find communities that have content that one is interested in, subscribe to those, browse Subscribed.
I know it’s because I don’t have many, but my subscriptions are pretty much dead (somewhat niche stuff). More general stuff (like this comm that is not hard to find anyway due to activity) feels like filler and some other comms I might visit might have stuff I don’t want to commonly see (like new accounts made for blatant self-promotion).
Relates to @zxqwas@lemmy.world and @whaleross@lemmy.world (why someone would be browsing /all)
A lot of mines are too and that’s ok with me. I mean, I don’t need new/fresh content every minute, or every day. For me it matters a lot more to not be annoyed by low quality content and not waste my time with those. Time I can then spend elsewhere/doing something else than scroll ;)
My first few months on Lemmy were spent on /all because there was so little activity overall. However, that led to seeing a lot of porn or fetishes I had no interest in showing up in my feed.
So I just blocked those /c’s as they showed up.
Took a little while but it worked out.
I block them as they come up. Individual users seem to be good about posting it to specific communities, so I typically just block the community, but I’m pretty sure there are some users that I’ve blocked entirely because they (as far as I can tell) only post furry content. I haven’t seen any furry content on my lemmy feed for at least a year now, I think.
Part of it is also the instance where you registered your account. I think lemmy.world not only has more furry communities, but is also federated with more instances that have furry content. I’m not an expert on how federation works though, so someone with better understanding might step and correct me. Also, I don’t think there’s an algorithm on lemmy…but I might be wrong about that too.
