Some people just don’t want to see naked bodies. They get really turned off by it. Or maybe traumatized. Or it may be a very wide variety of reasons.

It also covers things like Gore and violence.

There’s plenty of reasons a person might want to filter out NSFW content - the most obvious being that they’re at work or browsing in some other context where having NSFW content displayed might be inappropriate - in public visiting a cafe or a library for instance. Some people might simply not be using Lemmy for that reason and so desire to have it filtered out so it doesn’t get in the way of the content they are interested in.

Because people like to keep their jobs?