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Tywele ,

I wish we could leave behind this stupid naming scheme.

Chinchillax ,

Is it too late to avoid perpetuating the Reddit culture of adding “Porn” to titles of Fediverse communities?

As you can see in your title and description for this post, you have to stop and reiterate every time that your community is safe for work. It’s just bad branding.

Why not:

sublimeguitars

stunningguitars

pureguitars

guitar-awe

Woah, imagine niche communities of incredible photography that all use -awe, as a suffix. And then there’s an accompanying sister community with -aww as a suffix.

Could have everything cute that features a guitar and a puppy or whatever in guitaraww. And stunning guitar gear and photography in guitarawe.

rglullis OP ,
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I usually share the opinion that making sexual references to everything is silly, but in the case for the communities that are based on Reddit’s “SFW Network”, it seems appropriate.

If you think about it, all these communities are just sharing visually stimulating images and are intended to be consumed without significant context. This is pretty much the definition of porn.

If anything, I kind like the idea of having a name in the community that reminds you that of you shouldn’t be spending too much time on…

Today ,

Guitars are given names, have human characteristics (voice, curves, etc.) frequently described as sexy. I think guitars and cars deserve porn sites.

rglullis OP ,
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There is also !carporn, if you want to join.

Coelacanth ,
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I’ve honestly never had that much of a problem with the terminology. They’re communities for posting titillating and visually stimulating pictures on a theme. Pictures of desirable things - often out of reach for us average people - that provide pleasure just by looking at them. That’s pretty close to porn, no?

Maybe I’ve just not grown up in an environment that stigmatised porn enough to get the objection?

SatyrSack ,

I am not a fan of that naming scheme, but it definitely predates Reddit. I remember the old Saw films being described as “torture porn”.

Coelacanth ,
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@rgullis I think something is wrong with your link in the OP. The period after “community” is included, which screws the redirect (at least on Sync).

rglullis OP ,
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Thank you! Fixed now.

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