And to those that have been here for a while, how has your experience changed over the year(s)?

What has worked for you?
What do you see needs improvement in your chosen platform?

    • AskewLord@piefed.social
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      furries. linux supremacists. extremist left-wingers of various flavors and identity groups. fetishists of every variety and their weird SFW quasi pornography.

      not sure how you aren’t seeing any of that. i see it on a daily basis and to not see it i have to block dozens of communities. at one point on lemmy i had something like 60 communities blocked and 100s of users.

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          nothing wrong with them posting and doing their thing, but in fediverse that stuff hits general feeds and going to be incredibly alienating to a non-fetishist userbase. if the fediverse wants to grow it needs to keep controversial content away from the front page.

          personally i know furries and I don’t really care, but I’m a weirdo. Yet I still don’t really want weird furry shit that I don’t care about constantly showing up in my feed.

          Average people are FREAKED OUT by furries, even pro-queer progressives: https://slate.com/advice/2026/02/parent-advice-son-hobby-community-furry.html

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            Oh well yeah I mean furry content isn’t the same as furry porn. I immediately blocked the nsfw instances from my feed. Idk why that isn’t done by default

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              4 hours ago

              i think some instances do, some don’t.

              but some content is not porn, but very much like porn, like a lot of the furry meme stuff

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      Maybe all the ”what the fuck we just made another-moe" communities?

      I swear I used to block three every week, until I figured out it was just a few users who didn’t know how to use content warning tags, and then I just blocked those users.

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        100% same here. used to be every few weeks, now it’s every other day. and it does help to block certain accounts, but it’s still way more prolific and hard to filter out than it was 6 months ago