We’ve decided to disallow IRL or 3D NSFL content, this means things like gore, decapitations, suicides and similar intense disturbing depictions.
We will be allowing 2D Depictions (also known as Guro). However, when posting Guro content it is suggested you clearly mark it in the title and required that you embed/link to the image/video/media in the post body and not in the actual URL field.
We were inspired to think about this particular thing as lemmynsfw (another instance) was discussing it as well and made some good points. The main one being that there’s no separate NSFL tag, so people can’t properly filter it out.
Also, being 100% frank, it’s not the sort of thing we want to be tasked with potentially moderating and/or looking at.
Why must guro not be in the actual URL field? If you mark the post NSFW, doesn’t the image still get blurred? It could be required instead the title contain the words [Guro] or [NSFL] to warn people sufficiently. I ask because linking to the image means you need to leave this site and load some other site, which is annoying and slow and I’d rather not have to do when browsing casually.
You are allowed to embed images in the actual body of the post.
The reason for the embed/link needing to be in the body is mainly because a large portion of users are using this script: https://burggit.moe/post/7117 to unblur the porn previews. If Lemmy had a seperate NSFL filter I’d probably allow people to embed using the URL field, (might have a looser stance on NSFL in general) but currently lemmy only has an NSFW tag/filter.
Ahhh, that makes sense. It’s unfortunate that Lemmy doesn’t have more than just the NSFW tag. At least embedding images still work!
Honestly I wish Lemmy would allow for some mechanism of creating custom tags/content warnings. NSFW is too in-specific in general. It would be cool if Lemmy could at least allow admins to create custom tags for their instances like fictional gore versus IRL gore, or drawn porn versus IRL porn.
I would greatly appreciate this feature as well! That would make things especially useful for instances like ours.
A lot of people are using scripts to auto-unblur, so it’s out of consideration for them.
You can attach the image in the body and have it not show up while casually browsing, while still being on-site if you click on the post itself though, I believe.