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
The amount of kink shaming in this thread is disappointing.
One of my kinks is young, beautiful, ladies. None of these ladies would ever want to have anything to do with me. The are a fantasy. At the same time I have no interest in anyone underaged. I go to great extents to make sure what I post is legal. There are a number of studios from Brazil, Columbia, Japan, Vietnam, and China that I would love to post from, but they don’t legally or structurally provide 18 USC 2257 confirmation.
When it comes to OC content, the most important aspect of any model to me is her face/eyes. It is what I look at first in any photo. This by itself eliminates a large portion of OC content for me. Further as a professional photographer, the light, composition, and concept of the photo are important. These aspects are often missing or poorly understood in OC content. Thats ok. For those that like OC content, I am glad it is here for you.
As to the original question, A for now.
On to the problems.
I tend to post large images. I stay under what are the poorly documented limits. Often in posting an image it will fail with an error message that makes no sense. (SyntaxError: Unexpected token ‘R’, “Request er”… is not valid JSON) Many times, simply reposting the same image works. On other images, which have a smaller height and width (in pixels), and take up less storage (in MB) than what I have found as practical maximums, they just will not post. (Yes, I have posted this as an issue on the lemmy-ui GitHub.)
Lemmy in general, and LemmyNSFW in specific are much harder than reddit or other historical platforms to explore, and find the material you enjoy. Part of this is most posters are only posting in one or a very few communities. On reddit, I would find someone who was posting stuff I liked, I would click on their profile and use that to find other subreddits I would like. Additionally many subreddits, would have a list of “our friends” in the side bar, which is very rare here.
Staying on exploration, the search tools in the default web UI (simply navigating to https://lemmynsfw.com/ in a browser) are lacking. The only way to improve this is to make suggestions / get invoked with the development of the code. There are also, that I am aware of no communities like r/NSFW411/ or r/wowthissubexists/ (specifically the Fap Friday Thread) to help with finding new stuff.
As to the front page, whether you sort by active or hot what you tend to see is stuff that was recently posted. As there are a few posters, bots or not, that tend to post 15+ posts at a given time, those are what dominate the front page. If it is stuff you like, great, if not… Since this is generated automatically by Lemmy, you either need to come up with and code a new algorithm, throttle posting, or get more active posters.
As a final note, to the admins of LemmyNSFW and all the mods and posters who contribute. Thank You very much.
The ownership of !nsfw411@lemmynsfw.com was given to me by the original owner because of my attempt at making an r/NSFW411 equivalent for lemmy.
I was hoping there would be more people giving feedback or recommending new communities to add to it. (But so far there was only one person requesting to remove a community from a category.)
Edit: I also agree with the first part of your post. If everyone involved is 18+ and it’s consensual, what’s the problem?
My apologies, I did see nsfw411 when I first started on lemmy.
I was going over in my head what I wanted to say, and thinking about how I found stuff on reddit. I remembered NSFW411 and wowthissubexists, and ended up writing that paragraph, without doing my due diligence.
I have to admit this is the first I’ve heard of your !nsfw411@lemmynsfw.com . will check out later.
I know rhere are pending requests/actions that are on admins’ radar to do cleanup, resolve abandoned communities’ mod ownership, etc., but everybody is too busy so I’m just being patient.
Regarding posting of large images: AFAIK, nothing has changed since this update https://lemmynsfw.com/comment/626043 - max size remains 4096x4096 and supposedly 20MB.
It is true that very large images (filesize wise) may run into issues with timeouts when uploading… For myself - I try to compress my images for direct uploads to LemmyNSFW down to a manageable 2-4 MB range… Anything above that, I use lensdumps.com or imgchest.com hosting, simply to save my own bandwidth/usage also when I post to multiple places.
Removed by mod