After checking out Kbin for the first time, I think it’s possible for me to use it as a post mirror as well. I don’t think it’ll do much in the way of driving engagement, but at least it’ll fill it up with some content for the time being. Let me know if you think that’ll be a helpful for Kbin.

Seems like the server was down for a bit (or there was packet loss mentioned above) earlier. I tried checking the Kbin and Matrix space for any updates on whether it was down for maintenance, but both also failed to load. Do the Lemmy, Kbin, and Matrix space all sit on the same box/server (such that an outage on one causes all three to go down), or could the issue have been on my end?

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Ahh, okay! Cool to see you started up a Suwako place too, reminds me of that Cirno community someone here made

I did get some harassment from an account that I complained about, but I can’t recall complaining about the mods ('cept when the eraTW post got removed without breaking any rules at the time it was posted). The mods were quite supportive at the time of Fusu-posting, actually, so that’s pretty cool of them.

I didn’t really care about the drama and, funnily enough, missed much of it. Life got busy shortly after it began, so I only learned about it sometime later.

Yea in general people like posts where the character talks to the viewer since it gives them something more to do beyond “Oh that art looks nice”, so it’s not surprising that it was popular.

For some reason I didn’t receive a notification about this reply, but thanks for making the changes!

Thanks for taking the time to wrangle and update it, I think your updating of the banner text is definitely the right step.

For the 2 visitor UX changes that were generally supported (not auto-expanding NSFW posts and blurring thumbnails), I’m admittedly not familiar with Git myself. Based on the Github discussion of this, would changing both settings at the backend to “false” help to change the default/visitor view? If it’s just changing these two settings, would that constitute a fork that needs long-term maintenance, or could it just be a one-and-done setting change?

If it’s a fork that needs long-term maintenance, I’ll try asking around and see if anyone has the necessary skills to maintain a UI fork with these two changes made. I do think it’s important, it seems to be broadly supported based on the comments in discussions thus far, and the current problem seems to be a lack of capacity rather than will, so if that can be overcome, it may be possible to enact the changes.

That’s a fair statement. Imo there would still be gradations of fetish content (with some being more extreme than others), and I think if the main concern (which led to the changes) is increasing the userbase, having the more extreme content equally as visible as the less extreme content would be counterproductive to that end.

That said, I think this has been covered to death already, and much of it is just discussing hypotheticals without any data to lead to a conclusive conclusion, so I’ll leave it at that.

Thanks for creating this pinned feedback post. I think the post linked covers my thoughts, so there’s no point pasting it again here. Since that post, I think the suggestions by RA2lover (“blurred NSFW thumbnails” and “non auto-expanded images” for visitors/non-registered users) would be a good compromise. This seems to be broadly supported from those that replied in the thread, and it would be on par with Reddit’s approach towards NSFW content visibility for visitors.

However, I’m not sure if this requires modifications that have been covered above - if it does and it isn’t possible, then I’m in favor of a reversion to the original login/registration-gated NSFW posts and communities.

It might be a ghost-town (for now), but I suspect that’s better than rolling the dice on whether a visitor and potential joinee sees something they quite dislike splashed across their screen on their first visit, and associates that with the entire branch as a whole. Given the ratio of NSFW to SFW posts already noted, I reckon that dice doesn’t need too many rolls for that outcome. This place might still end up ghost-town, but with a significantly worse off reputation among those that hear horror stories of “Could you believe I saw ___ on the front page? God only know what they’re hiding behind locked doors for registered members if that’s what they show to the public” and visit for themselves to find out it’s true.

Just realized there was a “how about you” question, lol. I came over to Lemmy in the great Reddit API Migration and looked around for Lemmy servers/branches/instances. This server was advertised back then as being loli-friendly, so I thought it would be a great place to post memes (including those that Reddit wouldn’t like to see in their push to be advertiser-friendly).

Hello! How did you find out about this place? :O