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.
As for the third point, you can reason yourself into limiting the usage of something a lot using that thinking. I think extending public access to NSFW posts is reasonable considering the potential harms. People who might, for example, want to target users who might be into a certain category of pornography can right now target the meme communities of such categories. They would then be able to target the NSFW communities as well. But again, that kind of thinking will make you take away access to a lot. This is a public community that is very easy to get into afterall.