Hello! I was recently on the PeerTube website to find examples of universities and government institutions that used PeerTube to convince a colleague to try it out.
I was trying to find example of university channels, and typed in « university » in the SepiaSearch embedded component inside of PeerTube website. After typing the word « university » in the search bar, I was dismayed to find NSFW explicit content as the first result: (blurring was added by me, but the thumbnail is currently uncensored)
I figured that it may have been improperly tagged by the uploader or instance, but upon visiting the instance, it was properly tagged as being NSFW, and it doesn’t even show up when you visit the instance or the channel (with their default NSFW filters on).
I know that PeerTube / Framasoft can’t control every single video that’s indexed by Sepia or uploaded to different instances, but it’s a shame that I’m now thinking twice about sending my colleague to your website. The average person who doesn’t engage with fediverse or federation stuff would associate this p0rn with the Framasoft and PeerTube brand.
I think NSFW filters should, at the very least, be activated on the PeerTube official website’s sepia search. There’s no reason that content that the instance itself is hiding by default should show up uncensored on the official website, especially when using such a generic search term.
