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LemmyNSFW about to hit 6 months...

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 πŸ˜‰

[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

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  • Wow its been 6 months? I remember the first day trying to promote it on other instances πŸ˜„

  • 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.

    • 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.

    • 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..

      • 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

  • 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.

    • 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.

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

  • 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.

    • You have many good observations! Reddit has had many years of a headstart so LemmyNSFW will always lose in raw numbers comparisons.

      The only point I would say to consider is that subreddit membership numbers on Reddit are way over inflated with dead and inactive accounts (as well as tons of spam accounts) accumulated over the entire history of Reddit. And now probably 50-80% estimate of old content (especially over 6 months) are dead imgur or pornhub links πŸ˜• again falsely inflating the numbers. Afaik, Reddit never subtracts from their metrics numbers - their constant straight growth lines always going up are due to tons of spam and spamrings that mods have been fighting against for years.

      Case in point - my active personal subreddit currently shows over 45K members, but I know there aren't that many active accounts/members since the recent Reddit purges of accounts and defections. And I don't have the time or will to delete all the old dead content posts.

      I'm curious about your niche community and current posts - they are all illustrations. Is that intentional?

      • You may be right about the inactive accounts, and you are definitely correct about the dead imgur content (although I’d put the number more towards 50-60 percent), but I’m afraid those factors aren’t quite enough to make Lemmy attractive. Imgur struck a blow towards the NSFW side of Reddit, but it has recovered.

        Another draw Reddit has that I forgot to mention is the prevalence of OC content. That can have it’s own problems, with spam and excessive advertising, but the big upside is if a user finds something they like, with a single click they can go directly to the source to find more of it.

        RE: My community Yes, and no. With the type of content it is focused on, I have a slight bias towards illustration, and I’m basically the sole poster so that affects things. But, more than that, I haven’t found any non-illustration content that would fit. With that said, it certainly isn’t meant to be an illustration only community. I’m not attempting to actively remove or suppress non-illustration content.

  • 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.

  • 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. :)

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