I'd suggest that the right way to handle this is, if the "Hide adult content" checkbox under settings is checked, it should prevent this from happening. (Currently it makes no difference, afaict.)
I thought it was on by default, I have a (possibly confabulated) memory of unchecking it because I want adult content to show up; I prefer a more true to humanity face on the internet, that includes us at our shaking it baby, banging like it'll solve global hunger, nude lewd and crude finest.
a thing with the nsfw filter in the fediverse generally: there is a school of thought that people should treat "content warning" somewhat like an email subject line - basically marking everything nsfw if there is any chance that anyone might find it offensive. Not subscribing to that point of view myself, I tend to block anyone I encounter who adopts that practice because it is so annoying - but I can also understand that some people of very delicate sensibilities might appreciate being able to protect themselves from things that are not well-behaved kittens. TLDR, this is why a lot of people don't turn on their nsfw filter - because in many places 90% of the so-called nsfw content is actually sfw, but evokes food, alcohol, politics, violence (yet of the sfw sort), or controversy.
It's a good temporary solution but not perfect. I personally like some NSFW art (and people often mark pretty innocent stuff like memes as NSFW too, just to be on the safe side) but then again I don't want random gaping buttholes on the front page either. Additionally, plenty of porn isn't marked as NSFW at all although the instance-wide setting that ernest recently added should help with that I hope.
Personally I blocked the whole nsfw domain and then hid the random posts and threads div with uBlock (just right click the area. slide the sliders until it surrounds what you want to remove and then confirm) for now.
A lot of the posts are coming from lemmynsfw.com, which is a domain you can block. Unfortunately you have to navigate to their Kbin domain page, but you should be able to block them completely there.
I think it's something like kbin.social/d/lemmynsfw.com, and you just block it like a magazine or a user.
Definitely wishing there was a way to block without having to navigate there, you're definitely in for an eyefull
Not OP, but domain blocking doesn't seem to be working at the moment (at least for me). I ended up searching "nsfw" in magazines and blocking from there individually. That method seems to work, but it's also kind of a never-ending process, as other NSFW magazines start showing up as people sub to them. I'm sure it'll get sorted eventually.
problem is it also comes up in /all. which is the default landing page. So yeh, you have to reactively block communities, which still leaves you open to exposure unfortunately - lemmynsfw will certainly not be the last nsfw instance. not particularly nice when you're just browsing /all when family walk in the room and there's several thumbnails of females in compromising positions on your screen.
This ... please just let us disabled random stuff. I assume there's some theory about broadening people's exposure to help subs grow but it's really just annoying at the moment. I'd rather have that screen space back.
For science only, I would like to have the chance to understand wherever you folks seem to get these nfsw content on your main page (or sidebar? I don’t even know where that exists)
Please, please help me avoid such content by telling me where to find it so then I can never go there and only understand better in what framework such content would exist
Honestly, I don’t get any of this on my main (Local) feed