[Bug Report] Excluding NSFW instances from Lemmy Explorer excludes most instances, including lemmy.world
[Bug Report] Excluding NSFW instances from Lemmy Explorer excludes most instances, including lemmy.world
When viewing the instance list in Lemmy Explorer, enabling the Hide NSFW option hides 490 of the 567 listed instances. On the reduced list of 77 instances, feddit.cl, feddit.uk, and aussie.zone are listed as the largest SFW instances.
Unless I'm misunderstanding how the NSFW instance sorting function works, it seems to be a mistake for so many instances, including lemmy.world, lemm.ee, and most other major instances, to be categorized as NSFW.
This is mostly out of my control. The NSFW filter is not exactly as it seems. Any community or instance that allows NSFW posts is considered a NSFW subject by Lemmy Explorer. This means that even a casual community could be marked NSFW if it allows mature content of any kind. It would be nice if there was some more refined way of filtering this, but as it stands, there is not any API that detects NSFW by content rather than setting.
Good to know; thanks!
Huh, I got the same result when using the Lemmy Explorer section and searching for an instance with "Exclude NSFW" selected. If I searched by community instead of instance, it worked and included the instances you mentioned. Weirdly it actually included at least one community that was NSFW with "Exclude NSFW" selected.
The feature works as expected for communities, for which it's up to community moderators to label their communities as being NSFW or not. Maybe the community you found wasn't set as NSFW for some reason?
Not sure how it's set on a per-instance basis, but it definitely doesn't seem particularly useful in its present form for filtering instances if most SFW communities are from instances counted as NSFW by the Lemmy Explorer filter. A small problem in relative terms, but still something I thought was worth making note of. 👍