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Yea I noticed this one too. The thing here is for the users to help with the costs, otherwise it’s gonna end like lemmynsfw.
AFAIK lemmynsfw ended like it did because the main admin disappeared.
Ironically it demonstrates what happens when something is too centralised
I wouldn’t say it was centralized. They repeatedly begged over and over for volunteers to help moderate and even administrate the instance. Nobody stepped up, it seems.
They reached out to the community. The community declined their requests.
One guy stepped up as an admin. It’s the owner of the new instance. He didn’t have the necessary access to go in and pay the bills or have the deep server level access to fix things that went wrong.
He’s got a plan for his backup admins.
Yes, but I know that server cost was a thing too. Correct me if I’m wrong.
They used to post updates.Oh don’t get me wrong, definitely donate to your instance. But it’s just not possible to keep running an instance if the one person with full control of the infrastructure disappears; feddit.de had the same issue, and feddit.de/feddit.org was AFAIK always doing well in terms of donations.
Sort of the Achilles Heel of the Fediverse generally speaking.
It’s a loss network of hobbyists, not a self-reproducing state agency or profit motivated business.
I chose to see it as a strength as well though.
Lemmy as a whole is still very much alive. We lose servers every now and then, but no server is the whole platform.
If your server disappears, look for a new one and pick one that will fit your needs better this time. Or help pay for costs if that’s why it disappeared.
It’s a real catch-22. The ability to spin up new servers leads to plenty run by your run-of-the-mill person with some knowledge about hosting. The downside is that it’s inherently unstable due to relying on your run-of-the-mill person with some knowledge about hosting to maintain a social media server, and it’s always easier to destroy than it is to create.
Each time a server goes down, there’s some percentage of users and communities that won’t return due to the effort of relocating and starting all over. Why go through the effort of finding a new server, especially one run the way you want, and start over when the same thing could happen within a month. It’s like when a Discord server disappears, but your account gets deleted every time as well.
I think people just have to make informed desicions on what servers they pick.
Using small servers run on a raspberry pi in a shed by a single person is fine if you are that person. But if that is not your server you’re better off picking a more established server that has a more proven presence.
This problem can be solved by education.
Using the email comparison, most people would pick a provider with good reputation (hotmail, gmail, protonmail). There are plenty of shite servers out there, I’m sure. But noone picks them.
I really want municipalities to spin up their own instances (or at least pay for hosted instances.)
Imagine a world in which local (and larger) governments have their instances and don’t have to rely upon corporations like twitter. @mayor@sanfrancisco.city, etc.
That’s a really cool idea. The internet has really done a number on local news, maybe a world where your social media infrastructure was run by your local municipality would change that. At minimum, it would give people an interesting way to interact with people in their community.
I thought about that for a long while really. Would be so amazing for your “Local” feed to be actually, well, local!
You could see the events from around the neighborhood, yet still use your account to connect to the outside world.
The Internet and big platforms have withered local social activity and organizing somewhat, distancing us from our immediate environments and leaving all of us scattered. Would be cool to reverse this, while still enjoying the freedom of connection to everyone around the world!
I thought the issue was that the admin in charge of the domain name registration just disappeared for like a year and the other admin didn’t have access to renew it. Where did you get the idea it had to do with funding?
From the monthly reports, they used to post updates. Looks like I’m wrong on that.
I also noticed. lol
NSFW words
Duknow. I found it weird to call for subscription when we don’t pay the sex workers
This makes me think, what if it was a co-op? With shared funding and all that.
I think it could be cool. However that shall be asked to sex worker unions first
Hell yeah
I never used lemmynsfw much, but honestly I think things moving from Lemmy to PieFed is a positive move in general.
Lemmy Sync doesn’t seem to work with Piefed though. I’m still sad.
What I would really like is the opposite of a porn or nsfw filter. I want a filter so I can see only nsfw posts. Do any apps have this?
PieFed allows this to be set for your user account, which should thereafter work for any app that supports PieFed.
See screenshots in https://piefed.social/c/piefed_meta/p/1626487/more-search-options-nsfw-and-minimum-post-score.Edit: okay I forgot entirely how this works (it’s a search filter, not a user profile one), but that post explains it regardless.
That’s so close. If that could be done for the profile that would be perfect.
Put a feature request into the codeberg? The devs are extremely responsive, and as you say it’s so close, it might be an easy add.
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Lemmy Sync will probably stop working when Lemmy 1.0 is released. It hasn’t had any updates for a long time.
I hadn’t paid attention, but yeah I guess you’re right. I’ll have to start trying out other apps. Any suggestions?
Personally I use Voyager, a few teaks and it looks similar to Sync, but it’s perhaps missing that 1% of polish that Sync has. Overall I’m happy with it though.
Might also be worth checking out Lemmy Apps which could help you narrow down your choices!
I’m trying out Voyager right now. It seems to be missing the swipe navigation that I used a lot in Sync.
Connect is an amazing app, made by my a very responsive dev from Canada. There’s no ads and it’s frequently updated, I raised a couple issues in the app community and they were fixed immediately, and it’s super customizable. I tried most of the Lemmy apps and it’s my favourite by far, oh and it also has swipe gestures that you can customize.
Connect seems like a perfect Sync replacement, but it also seems to not support piefed.
Yes it does, I’m using it ATM for both Lemmy and piefed accounts.
Connect for Lemmy has been great, and supports PieFed too.
Eternity has such a feature, “Only NSFW” is it called in the filter menu. Works okay-ish as in that it takes some time to load (I assume it has to load the whole feed and then locally filter out SFW posts)
Well, I’m definitely going to give this a try. Thanks
Edit: Its last update was Aug 2024. Not sure if it is going to stick around.
Been using it since i created my account, without issues.
Use the local view on fedinsfw
That helps, but there is definitely nsfw content that isn’t on just the one instance.
Yeah I spent so long going through and blocking every non porn community on my lemmynsfw account and now I’m gonna have to do it all again…
Lol, I did the same thing. It’s one of the reasons I haven’t been to enthusiastic about FediNSFW.
Boost for reddit used to let you go to a random nsfw subreddit. That feature has not appeared in boost for lemmy unfortunately
That was a feature of reddit. Just like r/random, you could do r/randnsfw. I enjoyed that feature. Looks like they got rid of that feature.
Does this mean I have to go through blocking 9348934 communities by hand again?
Just block the instance, it gets rid of all the communities, but not users yet.
… you can’t block instances unless you’re self-hosting, though?
Welcome to a tutorial on how to block .ml on your personal account.
In the top right corner of the top of the page, there are 3 horizontal white bars. Click it.
This will open up a drop down menu. At the bottom of that menu, you will see your username. Click it.
This will open another drop down menu with 3 options. Click “Settings”.
At the top of your screen you will see 2 tabs. Click the one that says “Blocks”.
Here you will see “Block user” “Block community” and “Block instance”. Click the down arrow below “Block instance”.
This will open up a search bar. Type “lemmy.ml” and click it after it shows up.
That’s it! You’ve blocked .ml and will never see content from the instance. Now you don’t need to make a feud post every day complaining about .ml and other instances you disapprove of. Think of all the time you will save!
But wait, we aren’t done yet in this menu. Click the down arrow under “Block user”. Now type “UltraGiGaGigantic” Make sure you select my .ml account as the other ones I no longer use. Thanks, appreciate it.
Neat, thanks.
Check settings/blocks
If you use the connect app you can block instances, and all messages from people on that instance. You can still read them if you choose to, but i usually scroll past
you mean defederation
You couldn’t, but you have been able to for the past several months.
Just remove the checkmark on “Show NSFW content” in your settings.
I don’t mind NSFW content - after all, it’s a broad category - I just don’t want a firehose of porn and gore. Some days that’s all that’s in my feed, and I have to open each one in turn to block the community.
I think they mean as a self-hosting admin
I think they also really enjoy skimming through soo many communities ; )
As a self-hosting admin, they can just defederate the instance.
Also, they aren’t the admin of their home instance.I’m not self-hosting.
Not for nothing but when people brag about not liking porn about blocking porn instances I just assumed they’re the biggest perverts of all. Why else would they make a big deal about it? Just like how conservatives like to joke about cucks but then they’re all into cuckolding porn. Same things with trans porn. It’s like some kind of weird post-nut guilty conscience thing. My point is there’s a lot of fucking perverts in this thread mouthing off for no reason.
“Only my sexual proclivities are morally correct!!!”
I’m just not into porn and not interested in having it all over my feed
the server cost could not go on without ads or users donations. rip lemmynsfw
It’s the other admin from lemmynsfw who has taken it up.
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Well damn. Now I have a whole app of NSFW. Nice!
Never cared to filter out NSFW stuff, mostly because I didn’t want to miss non-porn nsfw posts. However, I’m pretty fed up with all the porn on Lemmy polluting my feed… especially the weird anime shit. Most of it is 1-2 posts in a brand new community. It makes blocking by community challenging.
We really need classifications for NSFW (Content) and NSFW (Porn) in general.
I have a question/concern. When I go to fedinsfw I see a lot of SFW posts there. I haven’t done much digging and I’m still a fediverse noob, are those posts showing up because fedinsfw is federated and those posts originate from elsewhere? Or are people going to fedinsfw to post non-porn? I hope people aren’t going there to post SFW stuff, I feel like we might be splitting up an already not-particularly-popular website into two websites, neither of which have a catchy name.
Replying cause I also still don’t really understand how this works even after like a year. Hopefully someone explains it to both of us lol
The other guy’s reply seems to be correct
Sadly it’s turning out to be just as terrible of a place as the last one. If things don’t improve we hope it goes that way too.
