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This is an old topic from Reddit, sorry about that, but I think the community would benefit from separating porn and other types of nsfw by adding the nsfl tag. (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Can_you_change_your_username@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social

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I've seen several posts lately of people complaining about porn showing up in their feeds and the posters say that they don't want to block all nsfw posts because they follow other things, like news from the war in Ukraine, that gets tagged nsfw because of graphic imagery. I think they have a reasonable complaint and that the best solution is to separate the two types of content such that porn is tagged as nsfw (not safe for work) and graphic images/gore/non-sexual nudity ect are tagged nsfl (not safe for life). It may not be entirely fair to label non-sexual nudity, medical posts, and I'm sure many other categories that aren't jumping to mind right now as not safe for life but nsfl is an already established and generally recognized tag and I don't think there's any real advantage to having more than two tags.

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[–] akai@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why not just create a 'porn' tag?

[–] Can_you_change_your_username@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It would have us labeling porn differently than most of the rest of the internet. That's not necessarily a bad thing and using something like porn would make the difference obvious. I was trying to stay closer to conventional usage.

[–] asteriskeverything@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well there is also this use, I do not want to see ACTUAL porn. The only fans, "college students have fun!" Type shit. I'd LOVE there to be an option to block that. As far as literal "nsfw" I don't care about that. I don't care about potentially sexy posts or art or whatever. Let the author decide if it is porn and tag it as such and not enforce any sort of rules or regulations on it unless a community or instance decides to.

Oh but this isn't an either or, I agree NSFL is a very helpful thing we should also have. I don't wanna see gore and human or animal suffering.