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:

[Update Nov 20] : WRT downvoting - see https://lemmynsfw.com/post/4581685

  • @[email protected]MEnglish
    5•2 years ago

    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. :)

  • @[email protected]English
    34•2 years ago

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

    • b9999998OPMEnglish
      10•2 years ago

      As always, thank you again for standing this instance up

    • PornyMcPornypantsMEnglish
      9•2 years ago

      It doesn’t help being defederated due to some legitimate concerns but a large part manufactured concerns. That little debacle was infuriating.

    • PornyMcPornypantsMEnglish
      16•2 years ago

      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.

  • @[email protected]English
    10•2 years ago

    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.

  • b9999998OPMEnglish
    4•2 years ago

    For C - here’re a few names that I think have bailed for good (based on lack of any activites since they first joined, will add more later):

    My only purpose for this list is simply for me to keep myself aware of potentially abandoned communities, not to pick on or shame anyone. I don’t mean to offend anyone.

    • LeoraMEnglish
      11•2 years ago

      Hello, still here. Still watching notifications and mod logs.

    • Pyff DaddyMEnglish
      2•2 years ago

      Still around, just busy, coincidentally happened to check in just now.

    • @[email protected]MEnglish
      1•2 years ago

      I’m here. Just haven’t logged in much recently, and there’s been zero need to mod my sub.

  • SockyFeetMEnglish
    11•2 years ago

    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.

    • b9999998OPMEnglish
      2•2 years ago

      Connect is good, but I’ve switched to using Boost for Lemmy (I had been a boost app user on Reddit so I like the familiar look and feel), for posting and browsing.

      [Update: I’m not promoting, just a long time happy paid user of the Boost app: see improvements https://lemmynsfw.com/post/4259177]

      I use the default browser UX mainly for modding. BTW, this default browser UI is the only experience afaik currently that allows tracking of crosspostings (example , so that I don’t end up duplicating what’s already posted

      Also the autofill/complete when typing in community names starting with the ! is a big plus.

      • MaybeALittleBitWeirdEnglish
        6•2 years ago

        Some interests are niche enough to be a turn off to a general audience though. When a new user shows up for the very first time and only sees two dozen hentai feet pics or whoever the fuck Matty Perez is as their entire feed it can be confusing. When they need to actively seek out content with general appeal it will make it seem like this is essentially only a fetish community. At a certain point it does become a detracting factor towards attracting new users.

        I agree that these things take time and that there will be more waves of new users once porn bans are in place on larger platforms, but unless there is a stable amount of content with general appeal as a ‘hook’ to keep people coming back it will be difficult to see any real growth.

        In my opinion this entire instance seems to be having an identity crisis. It’s trying to emulate too many different platforms at once without having the user base to successfully do this.

          • MaybeALittleBitWeirdEnglish
            1•2 years ago

            You’re right that the default sorting being local-active definitely doesn’t help. The new user experience for Lemmy in general has issues at its core unfortunately. Setting communities as default is an easy solution, but would have its own set of issues.

            I don’t think it’s a bad solution to have defaults, but it would require pretty clear and heavy moderation, likely from admins themselves. This would also have the secondary effect of forcing admins to take a stance on what kind of content should primarily be on the instance. All of this also ignores how feasible something like that would be across all the varying apps and front ends, which I have no idea.

      • b9999998OPMEnglish
        4•2 years ago

        Very true about Rome not built in a day. I don’t have any grandiose expectations, and I post here what I like, and if others enjoy the same, good. I spent over 5 years helping Reddit slowly grow along with the various subreddits I started from scratch and growth there was also slow and steady until the pandemic growth spurt came - so 6 months here is a good start. I spend only a quarter of my time now on Reddit just keeping various subs alive, and to raise awareness about LemmyNSFW to redditors.

  • lemmyposter212MEnglish
    12•2 years ago

    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.

    • b9999998OPMEnglish
      1•2 years ago

      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

      Reddit auto-removes any mention of LemmyNSFW links in user comments - I just tried recently and the auto remove happened within 10 minutes. DMs and mod mail are not touched currently so that is how I try to reach folks individually. I’ve also taken to captioning images with relevant LemmyNSFW comm names for stuff I post at Reddit…

      • lemmyposter212MEnglish
        2•2 years ago

        I’m a mod on subs so I was going to put an automod message, things that have worked there are using a URL shortener or linking to a wiki page with the url

    • b9999998OPMEnglish
      3•2 years ago

      That’s normal, that’s how reddit was for awhile, growth takes time and will come.

      Very true. It’s not realistic to expect that LemmyNSFW will become Reddit within a year. I like building up niche communities slowly - and only post/crosspost to mainstream comms occasionally though.

    • b9999998OPMEnglish
      4•2 years ago

      I’m sure you (or your baseless exaggerations) won’t be missed here 😉. Seriously though, you have the freedom and choice to balance out all my Matty posts with content you like… Go for it rather than spending your time complaining…

        • AhornygirlEnglish
          3•2 years ago

          💯 I had to unblock them just so I could see the thread, I could only see comments before 😂

            • AhornygirlEnglish
              3•2 years ago

              I agree, there should be a more “normal/main stream” landing page for people because getting blasted in the face by 85 kinds of hentai, furry porn and other very niche communities is a definite turn off. It’s hard to believe there’s anything else there when you only see the above posted by 1 or 2 people.

        • AhornygirlEnglish
          6•2 years ago

          Yikes that’s… wow. Sorry you’ve got to put up with shit like that.

            • AhornygirlEnglish
              5•2 years ago

              It’s hilarious and sad. A power trip over moderating space on the internet.

              It’s absolutely obvious what was attempted and it’s just sad. Hopefully everyone else was okay having private conversations being used to get a freebie 🤦

  • @[email protected]English
    10•2 years ago

    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.)

    • b9999998OPMEnglish
      2•2 years ago

      We now have a discussion about this going on in the modcoordination matrix room, with the admins engaging…

      I’m sure bridgade-voting manipulation by related accounts/groups (up or down votes) happen here as on Reddit, but the effect is much more magnified here…

      • @[email protected]English
        5•2 years ago

        Brigade implies an organized (one way or another) effort, which I don’t think it is. This is the result of people browsing ‘local’ and downvoting what they don’t like, when it’s entirely suitable for the community it’s on.