Just curious to know how many mods here are
- A. still “here” and active
- B. here but given up due to lack of momentum, interest
- C. abandoned platform completely
- D. just waiting for the 1 year mark and praying new users and posters will continue to come
- E. other? (like only relying at alternative matrix chat)
I’ll be happy to see more than 10 responses from this dead community 😉
[Update 11/18]: glad to see comments, feedback, much more than I expected. Also see the modlog for actions taken. Just wanted to point out a couple of threads:
- https://lemmynsfw.com/post/2601241, by @OptimusPrime@lemmynsfw.com
- https://lemmynsfw.com/post/418317 - this topic has been hashed over and over, and I’m not about to let this thread/community get derailed.
[Update Nov 20] : WRT downvoting - see https://lemmynsfw.com/post/4581685
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Wow its been 6 months? I remember the first day trying to promote it on other instances 😄
As always, thank you again for standing this instance up
It doesn’t help being defederated due to some legitimate concerns but a large part manufactured concerns. That little debacle was infuriating.
I’m a bit sad about the amount of posting, but reddit is full of OnlyFans promotion, commercial crap. And they will get rid of NSFW subs sooner or later. They have to because their prudish investors will demand it when they go to the stock market.
I think LemmyNSFW is poised to take up the slack. I’m sad that most Lemmy instances block this LemmyNSFW though. The idea was to be like Reddit.
I like pussy
And boobs
And napes
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Just me?
Napes are fun, and sensitive!
and cute as fuck. especially with those little hairs…
Haha haven’t heard that one before, it’s adorable.
Not mods, but am always here lurking, hoping one day lemmy takes off
Same, the niche communities I follow really only merit checking in weekly. Can’t wait until it really takes off and rivals the content on reddit, because I’m not going back
Perhaps you may want to volunteer to mod/take over some communities that have been abandoned? Or even help.out at existing active ones…
Still here but nearly given up. I’m responsible for >75% of the content on the sub I mod, there seems to be very little interest or interaction otherwise and I get shot down every time I try and branch out.
from a quick glance, your community seems to be doing well. Please don’t give up. Try cross posting to other communities also to get more visibility for your posts/comm
I get shot down every time I try and branch out.
Can you elaborate on this particular comment?
I’m trying to keep it going but at times I’m the only one posting, or we get a flurry of Reddit reposts and then nothing again. Just feels a bit futile.
With shot down, I mean I did try posting to other communities but there was either no interest, or people got a bit territorial. Had one fracas where someone followed me round reporting everything I posted so in the end I gave up.
You are doing good with new attempts.
Just Fyi that you might find useful too - see https://lemmynsfw.com/post/4557625.
Crosspostings can be a hit or miss, just try to be very aware about the destination community’s unique rules. Afaik, most general communities will welcome relevant content if you are not over posting into it.
Just an addition/caution to also be aware about LemmyNSFW instance-wide rule 2, when posting unidentified or unattributed models and content. Just please make sure to stay away from potential revenge porn or stuff where age verification can’t be provided - just don’t want you to get into hot water…
(Rule Two) Respect and Consent: Treat all members with respect and obtain consent when sharing explicit content involving others. No doxxing.
What do you mean shot down?
But I don’t follow your sub because I only like OC and I don’t have preferences for particular nationalities/ethnicities (or even genders for that matter). I like everyone. So I wouldn’t follow “IndianGirls”. It’s too specific for me. Kudos for running it though for those who are into it! Just trying to say why I didn’t subscribe (I’m just new but anyway).
That’s cool, we want people to follow what they like. I try and keep it fairly broad, see what catches people’s interest. Though the lack of other contributors means the community mainly reflects mine (or my mates) tastes. We do have one OC poster but she gets massively downvoted for some reason.
Yeah don’t give up plenty lurkers here, myself included.
Here, on B. Tried getting anyone in any of the communities to engage at all. Averaging one response per week or so, which is quite disheartening, and makes it quite tedious to post daily…
Got an actual thoughtful reply on a thread about a week ago, so I’ll see if I can keep it going a bit longer for them
Bummer, I always enjoy your posts, but understand what it must be like to post without any engagement. I’m one of the guilty ones who doesn’t often say anything, just press the little Up arrow.
For what it’s worth, I almost always appreciate your posts! We have a lot of kink overlap and, funny enough, I don’t normally run into interesting ties in my day to day life 😆
I’m here to show support.
Kinda A, and also a little D. It’s disheartening to see new comms continuing to appear that cater to evermore niche interests, instead of people having the restraint and good sense to cooperate towards reaching critical mass on much broader subject comms first. Also, I’m still not exactly loving the UX on desktop (my primary interface) even with LemmyTools, but recently found the Connect for Lemmy app in the Play Store and that’s helped keep me checking in regularly in spare moments during the day from my phone.
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Very true about Rome not built in a day. I don’t have any grandiose expectations, and I post here what I like, and if others enjoy the same, good. I spent over 5 years helping Reddit slowly grow along with the various subreddits I started from scratch and growth there was also slow and steady until the pandemic growth spurt came - so 6 months here is a good start. I spend only a quarter of my time now on Reddit just keeping various subs alive, and to raise awareness about LemmyNSFW to redditors.
Some interests are niche enough to be a turn off to a general audience though. When a new user shows up for the very first time and only sees two dozen hentai feet pics or whoever the fuck Matty Perez is as their entire feed it can be confusing. When they need to actively seek out content with general appeal it will make it seem like this is essentially only a fetish community. At a certain point it does become a detracting factor towards attracting new users.
I agree that these things take time and that there will be more waves of new users once porn bans are in place on larger platforms, but unless there is a stable amount of content with general appeal as a ‘hook’ to keep people coming back it will be difficult to see any real growth.
In my opinion this entire instance seems to be having an identity crisis. It’s trying to emulate too many different platforms at once without having the user base to successfully do this.
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You’re right that the default sorting being local-active definitely doesn’t help. The new user experience for Lemmy in general has issues at its core unfortunately. Setting communities as default is an easy solution, but would have its own set of issues.
I don’t think it’s a bad solution to have defaults, but it would require pretty clear and heavy moderation, likely from admins themselves. This would also have the secondary effect of forcing admins to take a stance on what kind of content should primarily be on the instance. All of this also ignores how feasible something like that would be across all the varying apps and front ends, which I have no idea.
Connect is good, but I’ve switched to using Boost for Lemmy (I had been a boost app user on Reddit so I like the familiar look and feel), for posting and browsing.
[Update: I’m not promoting, just a long time happy paid user of the Boost app: see improvements https://lemmynsfw.com/post/4259177]
I use the default browser UX mainly for modding. BTW, this default browser UI is the only experience afaik currently that allows tracking of crosspostings (example
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so that I don’t end up duplicating what’s already postedAlso the autofill/complete when typing in community names starting with the ! is a big plus.
Not as a mod but:
B, heading towards C, thankfully.
Lemmy kinda sucks, I’m sorry. I know you disagree. Im so tired of blocking super gross communities, “collector accounts” blasting out ransom ass nudes to every niche community they can imagine (… a misguided effort to make this place seem busier than it is), OF spammers, and snapchat scammers (looking at you “19 year old Filipino girls” lol), that it legit consumes like half if my time on here. The other half is spent looking at like… 3 women that post regularly. I really enjoy those 3 women, but like… yeah… It’s unhealthy for me, can’t speak for you.
You guys (non gendered “guys”) can’t force this place to be more popular than it is. You’re watering it the fuck down with misguided attempts to “fill content” in, and it’s kinda a wierd place to be. Like walking through a sex mall full of mannequins, but nobody else is walking with you.
There’s FAR TOO MUCH PEDOPHILIA ADJACENT CONTENT HERE. You people do realize women over 18 are hot as fuck still right? I’m saying 18 to be extremely generous also… I legit will not tell anyone i know, ever, that I’ve been here, in case they mistakenly check it out and think I’m all about that life…
I’m sure you (or your baseless exaggerations) won’t be missed here 😉. Seriously though, you have the freedom and choice to balance out all my Matty posts with content you like… Go for it rather than spending your time complaining…
Ew check yourself, and the vote counts. This is not how moderators should be representing themselves. Thanks for confirming my choice not to join your mod chats.
Did the other mods give you permission to DM that screenshot of your mod chat about me, by the way, while we’re discussing misappropriations of power? Or maybe you were giving me some special treatment in hopes of the same?
Yikes that’s… wow. Sorry you’ve got to put up with shit like that.
It’s harmless to me, I’m accustomed to gross men; it’s fine. Ive got enough real men in my life to remind me they arent all that way.
I can’t speak for the user’s in my screenshot though. They may not feel so even keeled about it. Or maybe it’s not a big deal. But I think we can all agree what it looks like was attempted here.
It’s hilarious and sad. A power trip over moderating space on the internet.
It’s absolutely obvious what was attempted and it’s just sad. Hopefully everyone else was okay having private conversations being used to get a freebie 🤦
Speaking of the collectors that post bullshit all over making the place much worse…
💯 I had to unblock them just so I could see the thread, I could only see comments before 😂
I only saw it because it was top post before I logged in. I Had to unblock them also to see it/interact. Without getting into a much larger conversation about how fucked the blocking system is on Lemmy overall, I think we should all be able to agree that a more prominent community mod shouldn’t be getting blocked by so many people because they’re a spammer… it’s problematic for these reasons among many others.
Sound like they are much friendlier to content creators than me however, for suuuure.
I agree, there should be a more “normal/main stream” landing page for people because getting blasted in the face by 85 kinds of hentai, furry porn and other very niche communities is a definite turn off. It’s hard to believe there’s anything else there when you only see the above posted by 1 or 2 people.
Please fix your attitude
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Well, I’m sure nobody cares lol but I have
n’tgotten a single new OF subscriber from being here, even on my free page, which I do find surprising, but I also do enjoy posting here so I’ll keep it up for now.I know nobody wants to hear a promotional account cry about not making money 🤣🤣 I get it don’t worry.
But also, there’s a real issue with people pasting too much of the same content and filling up the non everscrolling “front page”. First time I came here, I was super confused. It was like… Cocks in cages, some wierd AI stuff (you guys Crack me up!), and asian cartoon girls and the like. I’m impressed by the breadth of erotic content here, but for someone who might just be coming here for some cute tits, it would be really confusing for sure 🤣. I too have seen some distressing young looking content, but when I’ve checked, each time it’s been a legitimate content creator that just happens to look young, and leaning into that. But still, it’s um… something… to see and wonder if FBI is gonna take my phone after seeing it. I’d hope most guys turn around pretty fast after seeing that. Right guys? RIGHT, GUYS??? (I’m giving you a concerned mom look). Don’t you want a woman that knows how to work that thing? You can’t all be that damaged right?
Also if you think I’m talking about you, and I haven’t said your name, that’s called guilt. Think about it more please.
The main problem is it’s all bots and the same post on 6 different servers. I just like seeing OC
I’m sorry its the way it is. Have some not-posted-elsewhere OC, on the house, just for you and whoever else gets here haha, but you first:
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Thanks! If I can be so annoying. Care to comment on my other comment here, regarding the DM’d screenshots? Thanks
you know what, fuck it, i have some cash left this month, and you are sexy and beautiful. you seem genuine, and i agree with what you say. make that
not a singleone subscriber from lemmy!😲 I love being wrong, thank you!
I hope you’re really going to enjoy seeing all the bits I don’t show here 😘
New here and think it’s pretty cool.
Sorry, I seem to be lost. Is it Lemmy group for Nordic Stick Fast Walking?
Yes, rule 35
Not a mod, but if any nsfw communities need moderating or simply less load on their current moderator, lmk
Pro tip never volunteer to take “the load” on in a porn community lol
Been here since the early days and am glad to see how far the instance has come.
Why so glum?
Honestly, throughput and community management has really fallen off a cliff lately. We do have a handful of original content posters and God bless them.
