Wow its been 6 months? I remember the first day trying to promote it on other instances ๐
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
I like pussy
And boobs
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.
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.
Iโm here to show support.
Lemmy as a whole is slowly growing, we've continually seen an uptick in posts here, and improvements in the UI and source code. I have faith that it will continue to grow, slowly but surely.
I check my reports and then go about my day for the most part. I don't have time to be super active and I myself don't want to be fully engrossed in nsfw content every day lol.
But I do plan to start promoting Lemmy more on my subs on Reddit. I've seen some people begin to do it without pushback so I'll be doing it too.
Edit: Forgot to add: Right now we are seeing mostly mainstream pages get posts and not much on the more niche pages. That's normal, that's how reddit was for awhile, growth takes time and will come.
Not a mod, but a new user from Reddit. I'm the husband of an MF bbw couple. We've enjoyed posting ourselves on reddit over the years.
I was happy to see there was an NSFW Lemmy instance. I'm also happy to see that it's well moderated.
There doesn't yet seem to be a critical mass of people here. We're not conventionally attractive people, but on reddit there were numerous places we could feel welcomed and hot.
That's not the case here.
There's a bbw community here I've started posting in. I tried a few other places, but ended up getting more downvotes than upvotes. That doesn't feel good when we're just here to show off.
I'm planning on sticking around for a while, hopefully some more plus-size lovers come around here soon ๐
We're out there, waiting for content. Actually the lack of content in those areas has spawned a conversation between my partner and myself to start making our own to post here. Like you all, we are unconventionally attractive, and quite comfortable with our own skin/wants/desires. Just trying to navigate the groundwork between us to post online comfortably.
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.
still here, still never going back to reddit
B. It's hard to make my community grow when I'm the only one posting there. But I keep lurking because I hope it will gain momentum.
Reddit will surely purge NSFW sooner or later, so when that happens we need to be ready to welcome all those users.
I'm still at A. I try to post content to my main community once a day, occasionally other users (mainly Keralewd) post content which is great.
I think something needs to be done about downvotes. Any hardcore content I post is immediately downvoted. Pretty much all hard content I post gets 5 downvotes. Some recover, some don't.
I think people browse local and most don't seem to like hard content. People here seem to prefer softcore. That's fine, but downvoting is not the response to that.
I think you may have to remove downvotes and people will have to make their own subscription list and browse that. (What I do is browse local and then block the communities that I'm not interested in.)
(I'll copy this to the other thread, but this one seems more active and I want it to be seen.)
New here and think it's pretty cool.
Wow, 6 months already? Personally, I'm nowhere near as active as I used to be but I am still here posting and modding.
I'm somewhere between A and B at this point. The community I mod is fairly niche, so I was not really expecting a massive flood of interaction. It did grow pretty quickly at the start, but that growth has slowed down a fair bit since then.
The main challenge for me is that, aside from 1-2 posts by others, I am the only one who has been finding and posting new content, making me the only one keeping it 'alive' so to say. I've been managing alright, but I wonder what will happen if I get busy and am unable to make new posts...
I think the major problem with Lemmy (not just NSFW Lemmy, but I'll focus on that side) is one of user count and volume of content. On Reddit, there is a massive collection of populated, active subs, spanning all manner of desires and kinks, from common to rare. This simply does not exist on NSFWLemmy at the moment. For example, let's say a user is looking for content focused on female abs.
On Lemmy, there is:
Over on Reddit, there is:
as well as subs focused exactly on what the user is looking for, all with a very large member count, when compared to LemmyNSFW's most populated communities
The problem with this, is a prospective user is being asked to choose between a platform that has a steady stream of fresh, high quality content of exactly what they want, and one that is offering less, more infrequent, and more general content. From a pure consumption standpoint, there are really very few reasons to pick Lemmy over Reddit. I think, until there exists a compelling reason to use Lemmy, powerful enough to start self sustaining growth, this platform will continue to struggle with the problems that come with a low user count on a site focused around content consumption.
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.
Mix of A, B, D
I'm still here but mostly the sole contributor of my subs and toned down to maybe one post every few days instead several times a day
Sorry, I seem to be lost. Is it Lemmy group for Nordic Stick Fast Walking?
Been here since the early days and am glad to see how far the instance has come.
Not a mod, but if any nsfw communities need moderating or simply less load on their current moderator, lmk
A.
I'm still here, checking my notifications daily. I don't force myself to post content to my coms, I just share the relevant content when I find it (and in the mood to find it). I don't feel discouraged about being the only poster in my niche coms since I like to look for new videos from time to time anyways and if I share them here more people get to enjoy them. :)
Here but similar to some others I am 100% of posts on my sub, definitely should crosspost some
A - But not nearly pushing as hard as I used to + I'm largely the only submitter on my comm. Sharing links 2-3 times a day doesn't seem to differ much from 1 time a day, so that's my new target.
Community for moderators.