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Just a user here, but I'd say a small subset of users in other instances are already asking to defederate from this instance for some of the basic communities that show up, like gonewild. I just don't see allowing a fetish "at this time" being helpful to the situation.
The mod tools are not there yet, even if you added the ability to opt-in on just this instance. If someone subscribes to the community from a different instance it will show up for ALL USERS on the all feed for that instance. And well, thats just shitty (pun intended) for those who don't like the kink but want to see nsfw communities. Now you've put the problem on the users who must choose to block the community.
So, while I'm a big supporter of kinks, I am not in support of allowing it on lemmy today. voted accordingly.
Wow, that seems like something that needs to be changed ASAP.
That's a feature, not a bug, though there's some debate on the Lemmy GitHub about the wisdom of locally caching federated nsfw content.
It should be possible to cache the content without displaying it. Caching content should be a performance enhancement that doesn't otherwise impact users.
Caching has other downsides though, mostly for content that might not be legal in an instance's jurisdiction.