"All" means all. I suggest not using "all" but subscribing to things you actually want to see.
this post was submitted on 06 Aug 2025
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"All means all.
Not always. For instance if you have NSFW filtered, in which case "all" means "most".
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This is a recurring response, so forgive me for hijacking your comment to write this again.
/all is where we make our first impression to the world. For a lot of people /all is where (on a still growing platform) people go to discover. I don’t think having an additional “soft NSFW” filter would be a bad thing.
There’s a reason most clients have an NSFW filter in their settings.
Go to your Settings, uncheck the "Show NSFW content" box, click Save.
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I feel ya, some of the posts you said that on, probably should be NSFW. But not a romantic kiss imho. Other sites solved this ages ago with explicit, questionable and safe tags.
I think it's ridiculous that Lemmy adopted the binary NSFW option from Reddit. With the Ukraine war and people posting videos as NSFW with body parts laying around. I don't want to see the anime pictures in the same bucket as that either.
There needs to be more tags and that would make everyone happy.
[...] and I don’t want it in /all.
Skill issue. That's literally what /all is for.
Block what you don't want, or set your starting page to subscribed and curate from there. That's half the point of this entire place.
The other half you already did the work: notified the comms they have to set to NFW, etc.
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The subscription tab exists for this very reason. Stop being a selfish prick and trying to curate /ALL
No! Those who posts unmarked NSFW are the ones that should stop being a selfish prick and mark it as NSFW
The example OP has giving isn't even NSFW though, so no tag is warranted.
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You're somewhat correct of course but the NSFW tag exists for a reason. If there is one entire category of /all you can just filter out due to lack of interest, it should be stuff like that. Maybe at some point we'll also get an 'AI' tag.
The pro of being able to 'safely', for lack of a better term, browse /all is being able to discover stuff that you are not subscribed to, stuff you might not find otherwise.
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The only way All works is by either manually blocking individual communities or manually blocking certain instances.
Once you're done, it's mostly fine, but like you say, new ones do pop up.
There's ONE GUY who runs like 20 different AI porn communities and keeps creating more.
Exactly what I've done. Set my settings to hide NSFW, blocked most of the "soft" communities like hot girls and moe anime girls and whatever else (blocking the lemmynsfw.com instance is a great place to start), and I use All frequently. That's how I've found all the communities I've subscribed to, but frankly, my /all feed is small enough that I usually see all my subscribed communities anyway.
Why am I not surprised that the most sensible response comes from one of the more awesome mods on this platform
o7 sir, thanks for acknowledging my point and chiming in.
Hey, I was in your boat when I started on Lemmy 2 years ago.
"Wow, that's a lot of furry porn. And gay porn. And gay, furry porn."
Not gonna judge, if that's your thing, it's your thing, it's just not MY thing...
Stop browsing by /all. The firehose will always have content that is of dubious categorization. Instead of trying to change the whole world to conform to your tastes, curate your communities and leave others be.
I don't disagree, and it'd be really nice if people were better about tagging things like scantily clad yuri as NSFW. Even if there's no naughty bits, I'd just really appreciate being able to browse for new linux communities in public while having questionable stuff come up as blurred thumbnails. I don't want it gone, I just want tagging guidelines to be followed.
I’d just really appreciate being able to browse for new linux communities in public while having questionable stuff come up as blurred thumbnails
Sorry, I understand that it would be nice if others did the right thing all the time, but we can not reasonably expect this to work at any larger scale.
Besides, how many new linux communities are popping up every day that it makes more important for you to be browsing by /all? It seems like a bad workflow and really poor ergonomics to rely on /all for content discovery when you know what type of groups you can search for.
Why can't we expect that, though? True bad actors are surprisingly rare, and minor fauxpas forgiven. That's kinda how all of human society is able to function.
I don't really know what you're trying to say about linux communities or my workflow - that was being used an arbitrary example, and the actual goal with browsing /all is to find content you are interested in but previously unaware of. Not all communities follow strict naming guidelines, let alone tagging guidelines, and it's actually a real problem onboarding new users to the fediverse (mastadon's "where is the content" meme, for example)
Why can’t we expect that, though? True bad actors are surprisingly rare, and minor fauxpas forgiven.
Because the larger the number of people in the group, the more disagreement there will be about defines "bad actors" and "minor fauxpas". Right now in this thread people are arguing over whether or not these should be classified as NSFW, for instance.
that was being used an arbitrary example, and the actual goal with browsing /all is to find content you are interested in but previously unaware of
I know you meant meant linux just as an example, but what I am trying to understand is how much of an habit is it for you to get into content discovery mode that you worry about "doing it in public"?
I'm not really up for a discussion on the foundational concept of ethos since it's like 5am here, but conversations like this thread are pretty fundamental to how every human endeavor functions (hence why they're broadly called 'forums'). I don't expect everyone to always do the "right thing" (nor do I want to litigate the minutiae of what "right thing" could mean in this context), but giving up on the entire idea of having a guideline to follow just because some people won't seems a little defeatist.
Lemmy is still extremely new, and finding new communities to help grow (or even just finding new sources of content to consume, which is similarly valid) is fairly difficult without resorting to the one tool we have to help discover them. I'd wager, without having access to the backend, that right now the majority of users browse by /all since most niche communities only have at best a handful of new posts a week, and that content is exhausted quickly. At least, that's what I do, and I'm really very confident in my not-even-being-slightly-not-basic.
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I mean...that doesn't really seem that bad? Also, asking for the whole community to be nsfw is a wild overreaction looking at the other pictures in the community.
If you browse the all feed, expect to see some things you don't like/enjoy. It's a fire hose of content by design. Learn to curate your subscribed feed and stick to it. Frankly, lemmy doesn't have great filters/blocks to do what you want, and expecting the whole rest of the internet to abide by such strict standards of nsfw isn't going to happen.
PieFed has a "Hide posts in communities with these words in their name" filter for exactly this scenario.
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I browse All and have like 2000 communities blocked
[Edit] 1823 communities and 12 instances blocked
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Plenty of other people have said it, and I'll repeat it: Stop browsing by /all. Find a handful of communities you want to subscribe to, and stick with those.
There is a fair point to make that it's instances that should default to /local instead of /all - at least for uncredentialed guests. Since if you want to see more, you can just get to the next instance, and the next, and the next..., and that way we avoid reloading basically the same content and stuff on every instance you visit.
And it helps instances better moderate how they present themselves to potential sign-ups.
That is indeed a fair talking point, which of course has its own risk of a new user not know there's more to the fediverse (or not knowing what the fediverse is) than only what a local instance shows.
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apart from individually blocking them (which doesn’t really work, as they keep making more communities).
It's very much manageable. You could also try blocking certain instances or users.
Other than that, though titties.
Yeah. I blocked main porn instances and then other communities as and when they showed up on the feed.
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That's your example of softcore porn? There's much racier content on magazine covers in the grocery checkout line. Stop trying to impose your puritanical aesthetic on the rest of the world. It's called /all for a reason. What's wrong with you?!
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Nobody really seems to be pointing out that you are on an instance that does not require the behavior you are requesting.
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I don't know any place which have the proposed "soft nsfw" filter separate from "nsfw".
Comparison with reddit is weird as reddit r/all is full of ""artistic"" pictures or paintings of naked women.
Also the fediverse is not really like reddit. The more the platform grows the more useless All becomes. Try to go to mastodon and browse by "all" it's unusable. Either pick an instance with a good "local" you like or all is not really that important. I don't think it's a "first impressions", first impression is "local". All is never going to be a curated feed, not a consistent one. It's a federated platform, which means a LOT of diversity and variety on communities and posts.
Also I don't see or even want to start consider anything that shows a little skin "nsfw". I think that's a very personal taste that should not be universally applied.
I really don't buy the argument here.
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I haven’t noticed that so I probably blocked them long ago. You have to do some maintenance on the feed but these things do not pop up constantly.
I occasionally see similar complaints, and I’m sure it’s legitimate for some users. But personally I don’t get it. I don’t block NSFW content, and yet I rarely see it in /all. When I do it’s usually a bunch at once, but like I said it doesn’t happen a lot.
The only thing in /all that used to bother me is the sports stuff, but by blocking a single community that’s mostly gone now.
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