Mod Coordination

Wow its been 6 months? I remember the first day trying to promote it on other instances 😄

Not mods, but am always here lurking, hoping one day lemmy takes off

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.

I like pussy

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

I’m here to show support.

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.

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 😘

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.

still here, still never going back to reddit

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.

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.

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 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.

Not a mod, but if any nsfw communities need moderating or simply less load on their current moderator, lmk

Wow, 6 months already? Personally, I'm nowhere near as active as I used to be but I am still here posting and modding.

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

Why so glum?

Sorry, I seem to be lost. Is it Lemmy group for Nordic Stick Fast Walking?

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:

• !fitgirls with 5.39K members
• !thickfit with 500 members, and no new posts since 5 months ago
• !fbb (female body builders) with ~400 members, and no new posts since 23 days ago
• no communities directly focused on abs

Over on Reddit, there is:

• r/fitgirls with 1 million members
• r/FitNakedGirls with 1.2 million members
• plus a lot more 'general' subs I'm neglecting

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

• r/HottestAbs with 55k members
• r/SkinnyWithAbs with 173k members
• r/PetiteWithAbs with 10k members

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.

Been here since the early days and am glad to see how far the instance has come.

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.

A.

Here but similar to some others I am 100% of posts on my sub, definitely should crosspost some

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. :)