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We're the creators of Lemmy, Ask Us Anything. Starts Monday, 7 Aug, 1500 CEST (lemmy.ml)

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This is an opportunity for any users, server admins, or interested third parties to ask anything they'd like to @[email protected] and I about Lemmy. This includes its development and future, as well as wider issues relevant to the social media landscape today.

Note: This will be the thread tmrw, so you can use this thread to ask and vote on questions beforehand.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm gonna ask some tough questions, but I am hopeful to get a response. Thank you for all that you do.

Do you envision NSFW content having a place in the federation safely? And if so, would lemmy.ml ever refederate with NSFW instances? What would it take for that to happen?
How do you feel about lemmy.world being the proto "default" lemmy instance right now, especially on Sync app. Some have expressed concern about it causing centralization on the platform, others are hoping that people will spread out.
Do you anticipate making a distinction between NSFW and pornographic content at all? And taking that a step further potentially, is implementing activitypubs content warnings on the road map?

[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks!

There isn't a good way to do it: your All tab will be full of potentially illegal content if you federate with NSFW instances. We want to focus on dev, and not on legal issues, so for that reason we won't federate with NSFW ones.
I'm guilty of this also w/ jerboa, showing lemmy.ml content before you log in. We obvi don't want single points of failure, and want lemmy to be as distributed / spread out as possible. If some of the bigger instances go down, I'm sure people will write premature articles about "the death of lemmy". We're still in the early stages, and I think we'll have to see how things evolve, and what promotes decentralization the best. We've tried to rotate the signup sites at the top of join-lemmy.org , but there are likely other things we could do.
Creating multiple types of NSFW would be possible, its just not something we've implemented yet, and there are also issues with how that would be handled with activitypub, which only has one type of sensitive field.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Maybe it should be like a tiered NSFW tag system. It might add too much complexity, but posts could be classified for Nudity or Violence (N, or V) and then a number for category 1 being the softest stuff and 3 the strongest stuff. Then instances and/or users can choose the type of content that's to be displayed in their front page.