[-] yay@lemmynsfw.com 29 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Lemmy NSFW is a platform that has existed thanks to the efforts of Lemmy developers. Therefore, their funding is more important than ours. Every donation is appreciated 🙏

I should note that Lemmy (software) and Lemmy NSFW (instance) are not related with each other.

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by yay@lemmynsfw.com to c/lemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com

Since I haven't patched the newly updated version yet, it won't be automatically marked as NSFW. Please manually mark your posts as NSFW for now until this post disappears.


Update: you can safely ignore NSFW button now. All posts are NSFW flagged by default.

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by yay@lemmynsfw.com to c/lemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com

I haven't updated it for months, thinking it would make sense to follow Lemmy.world's update cycle, but they haven’t updated for so long and we're running into federation issues. So I'll be updating to the latest Lemmy version (0.19.9).

I believe the update process will take about 1-2 hours.

Also, what do you think about Lemmy NSFW's speed/performance? You can express your opinion in the comments or with the poll. We can make improvements if necessary.

Poll: https://strawpoll.com/e7ZJaLlmLg3


Update: Done. Please comment here if you encounter any issues. Email issues are fixed too.

[-] yay@lemmynsfw.com 27 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It is a volunteer position. We’re not earning anything either.

I know users who spend more than 1 hour a day here. I hope they might be interested in this position.

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50k users 🎉 (lemmynsfw.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by yay@lemmynsfw.com to c/lemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com

yay 🍻

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[-] yay@lemmynsfw.com 13 points 1 year ago

Epoch seemed safe to me too. But they responded as below for "donations":

"Thanks for the email and details. Unfortunately, we are unable to provide processing due to the billing being for donations. We are ok with the NSFW content; however, with our structure with our Acquirer/Bank, our services can not be used for the billing of donations."

[-] yay@lemmynsfw.com 16 points 1 year ago

As someone who doesn't work in the NSFW field, I would like to keep my professional career away from an NSFW site TBH.

[-] yay@lemmynsfw.com 13 points 1 year ago

We had that. They removed our account and refunded all donations :/

[-] yay@lemmynsfw.com 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thanks my buddy :) There is a post I'm using for it which is here: https://lemmynsfw.com/post/87160

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by yay@lemmynsfw.com to c/lemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com

There are issues that have been on my mind for a few days, and I wanted to talk about them with you.

Downvotes

As you may notice, downvotes have been completely off for the last few days. I did this because I couldn't resist the pressure of some friends :/ I still don't know what to do about this. The majority of members probably want it to be completely open. As mods, posters and admins; some think it should be closed, some think it should be restricted (I guess).

I guess there is no solution that makes everyone happy. I realized I don't have admin skills in stressful situations, I'm a fucking stupid lol :D I miss @gabe so much.

lemmyposter212 suggested "fuzzy votes" or something that can work for us too. I think I'll just ghost this issue for a while.

Donations

As you know, all our donation accounts have been closed. Since it was my first time opening a site in the NSFW area, I had no experience. I reviewed some adult donation sites but most of them were shady. Honestly I couldn't trust them.

There are only coins now. But I guess most people don't want to deal with coins. It is because I didn't get any donations about 4 months now :D Those sent from Github Sponsor or Patreon were also returned to donators as well. I received $200-ish donations so far.

We are currently the 2nd largest instance in Lemmy. After lemmy.world, we're bigger than lemmy.ml and lemm.ee! I don't think it will work this way anymore. On an annual basis, I need to spend a month's salary for Lemmy NSFW.

Does anyone have an idea to solve this problem?

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by yay@lemmynsfw.com to c/lemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com

In our previous announcement, we announced that we closed downvotes.

Some people found it right, some people hated it, some people hesitated. At the end of the day, since we are on a disorganised platform like fediverse, I find the decision we took right. However, I was also annoyed by the lack of downvotes. So I searched for a solution.

I think the planned post flair support will be a good improvement in this regard. But it seems to take a long time to develop.

What do you think about limiting downvotes to only members of that community? I see it as the optimal way in the current situation.

Please vote with empathy, not just as a user, but assuming you are a poster user. Is it right decision?

Poll: https://strawpoll.com/DwyoDBooDnA

Result: done.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by yay@lemmynsfw.com to c/lemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com

Quick notes;

  • Clients may not work with the beta version for now. Please log out and log in back again to test it. Please request support from client devs.
  • Blur NSFW and auto expand features are part of official Lemmy now, you can find these on profile settings.
  • Beta version has some bugs, please report them on the repo.
  • You can now block instances with this version
[-] yay@lemmynsfw.com 18 points 2 years ago

Its too bad that I can't downvote you lol 😅

Our goal here is not to take away the downvote feature, believe me, but to protect the posters. Please see our good intentions.

[-] yay@lemmynsfw.com 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Believe me, I didn't want this decision either, but the posters were being downvoted for their posts in even accordance with the community.

Downvotes should be used for posts you don't like in your area of interest, and not for niche communities you don't like.

When the RFC mentioned in the post is developed, we will be able to have a more refined home page, this way we can enable downvotes.

But for now, please block users/communities as it supposed to be.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by yay@lemmynsfw.com to c/lemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com

Update: if you're seeing this text, then we've completed the migration :) 🎉

TL;DR: We are downgrading the server.

Currently, the instance has a monthly cost of approximately $200, and we can barely cover this expense with donations. But more importantly, we think that the current server specs are too much for the needs.

We are the 3rd instance with the most users and one of the most stable instances with 99.55% uptime, but still more than half of the server components are not used.

Therefore, we will slowly downgrade the server to use donations more optimally. By the way, thank you to everyone who supporting us 🙏

  • Old specs: 16 core, 48 ram for 160$
  • New specs: 12 core, 32 ram for 125$

The migration will start in 12PM UTC, you can check from your own timezone from here: https://notime.zone/NdyvH8JtJkJmZ

Instance will be available with a few downtimes, but posts/comments after 12PM will be deleted. Please follow this post...

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by yay@lemmynsfw.com to c/lemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com

I haven't been able to fix these sooner as I've been busy the last few days. I got it now.

The Voyager app (voyager.lemmynsfw.com) on the instance works as expected and updates automatically now.

Post listing settings (blur nsfw/auto expand images) are back again. I will not update Lemmy version before I patch new version so it will not be unpleasant as before.

Also we're having trouble with the donation platforms. We may be making a change soon. Friends who have donated from sites such as Github Sponsors and Patreon before, what do you think about making donations from sites such as fanbox.cc or subscribestar.adult?

[-] yay@lemmynsfw.com 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

While I don't like Cloudflare for centralizing the web, I'm grateful they host almost 40TB of data for free in a month.

[-] yay@lemmynsfw.com 41 points 2 years ago

You know I'm not serving the site from my local computer right? 😀

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by yay@lemmynsfw.com to c/lemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com

I was waiting for new versions, but the disk filled up faster than I expected. I'm moving 400GB image archive from local disk to object-storage. Unfortunately the process is very slow. It will take several hours.

Update: Migration finished 🎉

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by yay@lemmynsfw.com to c/lemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com

An ex-admin to whom we have given access to the server, has reported us to the server provider. Also we were already planning to migrate somewhere else. So right now we're moving to a more secure server.

I'll try to make a smooth transition. Any interaction (post, comment, like etc.) after 11AM (CET) will be deleted, but the site will not be down during migration. It will be an estimated 1 hour process.

Update: its done. Hopefully without problems. If you see this, you are on the new server.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by yay@lemmynsfw.com to c/lemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com

Update: I contacted with current big owners, other older friends and lastly from some friends from here. Mostly all of them living in US so they don’t want/can’t host it. So I’ll keep hosting without being on moderation side. @gavi@lemmynsfw.com will post about details I guess. @gavi@lemmynsfw.com is the new top admin.

As you know, it has been 2 weeks since I opened the instance and it has grown quite a lot. Likewise, the time I have to devote to this work has increased a lot.

I'm dealing with lemmynsfw more than my IRL job right now :D This is bothering me. Also, having an NSFW instance instead of a normal instance makes things much more difficult. If you remember; I had my biggest scale fuck up with the post "we allow loli content" :) This situation wore me out. Also a lot of problems are bothering me, both as a software and as a community.

That's why I'm thinking of transferring the instance and the domain to a person I trust. Who can maintain the deployments and also know this stuff. I will also roll over any donations made, excluding the current month's expenses.

I'm sorry if I've upset anyone. That's all from me.

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