Posts on NSFW communities on Burggit are inaccessible to visitors of the site who are not logged in, meaning these communities can only be browsed pseudonymously. There are two reasons why I think this restriction should be lifted:
- Security and privacy: Some people on the internet may wish not for their browsing habits to be connected to an account and may wish to minimise identifiers. Some browse the internet with cookies disabled. Some have to live paranoidly on the internet due to where they live and other life situation reasons, and these people won’t be able to enjoy the NSFW communities on Burggit.
- Discoverability: To check out NSFW communities, people have to register an account, so it’s not possible to make a decision after seeing if you like the instance. Previously, you could browse Burggit’s NSFW communities on lemmynsfw.com without an account but after they defederated, this isn’t an option either. There might be other instances you can use now, but it’s not a good idea to count on other instances for this purpose.
I’m curious about what you think about this.
The front page sidebar indicates that NSFW content is hidden away from visitors without an account, and this is a Lemmy restriction, rather than a Burggit one.
I don’t follow Lemmy’s development so perhaps it might change in the future (either with an upstream change or forking the codebase and making further adjustments, which is what I think lemmynsfw did).
I missed that. Is this a new development? I have browsed NSFW-tagged posts from Burggit on the lemmynsfw.com front end before. I doubt other instances can un-NSFW posts from other communities.
They’ve forked Lemmy and are running their own version of it with modifications.
Clicking “Code” on the footer in in lemmynsfw.com leads to https://github.com/LemmyNet so if they are running a fork and they haven’t released their source code, that would be an AGPL violation. Either that, or they’ve stopped doing that, which seems more likely because I can’t view NSFW-tagged posts on that instance right now either.
https://git.lemmynsfw.com/lemmynsfw
Ya, probably a AGPL violation. They would have to modify the source code every new version from what I heard.
I hope that code gets adopted into main in some form eventually. The only thing I miss from lemmyNSFW are the auto-expand / no blur images options.
Also +1 for the ability to browse as an anon. That was one of my favorite features of the Infinity app I used to use. Also had an option to require a pin on unlock for mobile.
Check out my tampermonkey script over here: https://burggit.moe/post/84267
I unblur the icons and then make them twice as big
Ah yes. I’m currently using it! Thank you for that. Images are still small, but it’s a huge improvement!
There ought to be a way with tampermonkey to auto expand images, you just have to learn some css.