Feedly is the closest thing to Google Reader that I’ve found.

There are things other than porn that is nsfw. Some workplaces are strict.

Basically I don’t want people posting nude pics/videos of themselves or others. That’s against the spirit of the community.

But other content that might not be acceptable on a work screen would be ok.

Sorry, I must have missed that point in my first read through. I think we will see a lot of changes with Lemmy as development proceeds. It seems like that particular 404 is being generated in the Lemmy software rather than the webserver portion because that is not a standard 404 message. So instead of generating that message it could probably be fixed to kick off a “manual” search instead of generating an error. We will have to leave that to the Lemmy devs though.

I tried doing that with a previously unsearched/unsubscribed community as a test on my own instance, and I got a 404: couldnt_find_community error when clicking the link. As you stated, it seems like in most cases that special link will not work unless someone has previously manually searched for the same community in your instance.

I think I’d rather link directly to the instance for the community than get a 404 error. For most people, getting the 404 will just deter them from proceeding further.

Perhaps it would be best to include both links in a post?

I was explaining it to a friend today, and I came to the conclusion that Lemmy is a LOT like the old FIDOnet message network that was used on BBS’s.