We’ve decided to disallow IRL or 3D NSFL content, this means things like gore, decapitations, suicides and similar intense disturbing depictions.
We will be allowing 2D Depictions (also known as Guro). However, when posting Guro content it is suggested you clearly mark it in the title and required that you embed/link to the image/video/media in the post body and not in the actual URL field.
We were inspired to think about this particular thing as lemmynsfw (another instance) was discussing it as well and made some good points. The main one being that there’s no separate NSFL tag, so people can’t properly filter it out.
Also, being 100% frank, it’s not the sort of thing we want to be tasked with potentially moderating and/or looking at.
Since people who wind up in this thread are probably looking for it… there’s still https://guro.cx and doing well (from the admin at the end of 2022): I secured a large source of funding from the Network Security Service (Kolyma NSS) to go towards expanding GUROchan’s outreach, primarily aimed at capturing back the stunningly large amount of people who, after 2 years, are still not aware that GUROchan came back in 2021.
Why must guro not be in the actual URL field? If you mark the post NSFW, doesn’t the image still get blurred? It could be required instead the title contain the words [Guro] or [NSFL] to warn people sufficiently. I ask because linking to the image means you need to leave this site and load some other site, which is annoying and slow and I’d rather not have to do when browsing casually.
You are allowed to embed images in the actual body of the post.
The reason for the embed/link needing to be in the body is mainly because a large portion of users are using this script: https://burggit.moe/post/7117 to unblur the porn previews. If Lemmy had a seperate NSFL filter I’d probably allow people to embed using the URL field, (might have a looser stance on NSFL in general) but currently lemmy only has an NSFW tag/filter.
Ahhh, that makes sense. It’s unfortunate that Lemmy doesn’t have more than just the NSFW tag. At least embedding images still work!
Honestly I wish Lemmy would allow for some mechanism of creating custom tags/content warnings. NSFW is too in-specific in general. It would be cool if Lemmy could at least allow admins to create custom tags for their instances like fictional gore versus IRL gore, or drawn porn versus IRL porn.
Isn’t it possible to make a community not show up on the frontpage? Seeing the words Ban and Burrgit seem counterproductive.
They’re too nauseated to look at actual people being mutilated, and so by allowing it there would be the possibility of people hiding worse content (actual real-life CSAM) behind a wall they’d be too uncomfortable to look behind and moderate, if that makes sense.
And I’m nauseated at seeing pedo loli shit, but you don’t see me complaining. Just hide both behind a community, someone will mod it, shit I’m no stranger modding NSFL shit, being /r/watchpeopledie
They face legal risks if the community mods don’t do their job.
So get someone to mod it.
One, this is not your server. You don’t get to tell us what we can and cannot do on it. If you wish, you can start your own instance with a goal of NSFL content and see how easy it is to maintain it with people constantly joining. I’ll even help you with some pointers on getting it setup if you wish. Prepare to get defederated all over the place, possibly moreso than we are, though.
