There’s a constant influx of new communities with softcore sexualized characters, especially anime girls, that I could do without.
I don’t mind anime and manga in general, so I would rather not block the instances that specialize in it, but blocking softcore communities one by one seems be a never ending task.
I also think it may be off-putting for new members.
Stop looking through all, subscription exists for a reason.
While I agree with your broad point and have made the same point myself – it is just wildly impractical for people to try getting the whole network to blacklist everything globally to fit their exact set of tastes – I will grant that there’s probably room for user-curated whitelists or something. I understand that Bluesky does something like this. That way, instead of having to discover each individual community, you can subscribe to someone’s list of recommended communities and have them “auto added” to your subscriptions or something like that.
How do I discover new communities without using all?
By looking at the communities listing
Do so NOT IN PUBLIC? As in… Browse all when you are in a place where it doesn’t matter who can peak at your phone and just keep SFW comms on your subscriptions to browse otherwise.
Because we know most people are too lazy to properly tag them as NSFW or don’t think of them as such, but at the end of the day, if you are browsing all in public or where you shouldn’t, then you are the one making problems for yourself, either by random sexy content, something that could trigger a phobia or random military footage that could be too violent for someone peaking over (still their fault for being rude and peaking over).
These guys run a bot that indexes all of the Threadiverse.
https://lemmyverse.net/communities
It’s not made obvious to new users, but it’s generally a considerably-better option than simply looking at anything local to your Lemmy instance (including All) if you’re trying to find new stuff for a number of reasons, most-importantly the fact that your home instance will only ever see posts from a community on a remote instance if at least one other user on your home instance has subscribed to that community.
Just grab the community there (!communityname@instancename, which it will copy if you click on the community name) and search for it on your home instance. Your home instance will contact the remote instance and learn about the community if it’s never heard of it before. At that point, you can subscribe to the remote community, and if you’re the first user on your home instance, it will start getting posts for that community.
This is less-critical on large instances, like lemmy.world, because you’ve got better odds that someone else with the same home instance has subscribed to a given community, but even there, if if you use All to find new communities, there are going to be remote communities that you just won’t ever see. The only way to get a complete list is to do what the lemmyverse.net guys do, to index all instances on the whole Threadiverse.
Plus, this is searchable, sortable, you get a single entry per community so you don’t have to crawl through all the — potentially offensive to you — posts to find a community, you can see communities that are rarely active without waiting for someone to post, etc.
I mean fair enough up to a point but the thread side of the Fediverse simply doesn’t have the content for subscribes communities to be enough. I mean unless your subbed communities focus on politics, tech and star trek I guess.