PieFed allows this to be set for your user account, which should thereafter work for any app that supports PieFed.
See screenshots in https://piefed.social/c/piefed_meta/p/1626487/more-search-options-nsfw-and-minimum-post-score.

Edit: okay I forgot entirely how this works (it’s a search filter, not a user profile one), but that post explains it regardless.

I wouldn’t say it was centralized. They repeatedly begged over and over for volunteers to help moderate and even administrate the instance. Nobody stepped up, it seems.

They reached out to the community. The community declined their requests.

8 legs and not one hand among them…

Okay, human centipede it is then.

Don’t mix them up!

The presents, or the kids v. Anakin part?

“Yes”!

If misogyny were somehow magically solved tomorrow, then Xhitter would still remain a misogynistic hellhole, featuring a cesspit of whatever traits of humanity triggered clicking or views or whatever generates the highest profits (maybe in the future, trying to gain the attention of bots will vastly outweigh what happens to us here humans, in the same manner as corporations replaced individual businesses in the economic sphere?).

The specific situation described in the article is misogy, but it points to deeper roots of enshittification. The 15 year old girl will still feel put upon, even unsafe, even if it has nothing to do with her femininity anymore.

School is mandatory, Xhitter is not.

If she walked home and along the way stopped off at a particular cafe, and always got side-eyed by people there… then yeah, I would say hang out somewhere else?

Be the change that you want to see in the world, and all of that.

We here are not:-).

“Social media” generally implies an algorithm delivering monotized content, so Lemmy is not true social media.

It is media that is social, but it’s nonetheless very very very different.

Not true. It actually makes your attention span WORSE than a goldfish! 😞

It is everywhere, including irl.

However, I would guess it is more prevalent on Xhitter than here.

Better yet, make a UK-based Mastodon instance “for the children”, keeping it safe from such?

If you always get catcalled between Fourth Street and Sixth Street, and you never get catcalled on First through Third Street or Seventh and above, then yeah, maybe just know that going onto Fifth Street you might get catcalled?

You could try expressing your explicit disapproval to Elon Musk directly, maybe that will help?

Actually no, it’s not just “Fifth Street”, it’s Fifth Street in an entirely different country. Tiktok is based on China, Insta and Twitter are in the USA. Normally the rules governing a platform are a combination of the origination point and whatever interrelations exist - although obviously Donald Trump is rewriting those at will to suit him. And yet the UK could do the same… or make an alternative, if it wanted to?

Don’t use Instagram or TikTok ✅👍

Enragebait is a well known consequence of using a profit-driven Algorithm, i.e. enshittification.

15-year-olds are not being specifically targeted so much as caught up in the phenomena occuring overall.

A good nearly half of people use authoritarian thinking rather than have to put in effort to think for themselves even slightly.

Sheeple

PieFed, at the discretion of community mods, offers restriction of voting to only subscribed community members. This limits drive-by downvoting from All, where people would not have read the community rules (which in PieFed are repeated in their entirety at the bottom of every post from that community).

It also offers restriction of voting to only “trusted” instances, thereby introducing a third category between the binary federation vs. defederation.

I have also seen communities on PieFed that disable downvoting entirely, even to subscribed members, even on the same instance.

Community mods can enable or disable these settings at will iirc.

While if your weight begins with “3”…

On a somewhat related note, can a setting be provided to disable auto playing of ALL videos? (Like on PieFed.social, and I mean not just NSFW ones)

At least blocking sound by default is helpful, but blocking auto play would be even more so.

Way ahea… uh, I mean, nuh-uh, shut up!! :-P 🍆

And… hookers, one presumes?

They want what they are told to want.

This is the weakness that we were warned was a foundational component of democracy itself. The citizenry must be educated, or it becomes vulnerable.