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.
And people are welcome to use whatever measures makes them feel comfortable. There’s not really anything else I can say on the matter beyond what I already have. There’s nothing that can feasibly be done about NSFW content being visible for non-logged in users unless it get implemented into the Lemmy software, or we fork it, but we do not have the resources to properly maintain a fork. I’ll have to leave the conversation here.
I understand. In my reply, I wasn’t trying to push my request. I was just responding to your points.