Announcements

This post is going to be a long one, to spare you some reading I'll do a TL;DR, but I really would appreciate you reading the whole thing.

TL;DR: Burggit (The Lemmy Instance) will be shutting down July 14th 2024. Due to lack of funding, grievances with the Lemmy software and lack of resources, energy and interest on our part. We'll be giving one month for everyone to move their local posts somewhere else and download their images. shota.nu will not be shutting down, so images/video hosted there will be fine, but they will not be viewable on the Lemmy Burggit since we'll be shutting the webpage down after July 14th 2024.

Now for the whole post.

Back when we started Burggit I was in great health, I was managing multiple sites at a time and constantly adding things to my plate, which were managable while I was in that state. Burggit was an excited project that I asked Burger to set up, because I didn't (and still don't) have the knowledge to maintain. At worst, I thought it could be a fun little place for us and a few friends to mess around and kinda use as a link archive. I even offered to pay for it, since burger is in a difficult financial situation.

Things went well shortly after it was up, we didn't have hardly any users, just a few friends like I originally intended. Then the Reddit API stuff started going in full swing and suddenly people started wanting to join. This was a very exciting time for us as the site grew. It got to the point where my wife even had to help us with managing everything, since she was usually up when Burger and I were asleep. Everything was going rather well.

Then I got sick, I got so sick that I almost died twice, I lost half of my lunge and 2 of my ribs, and I was in and out of the hospital for almost a year. During this time, I could not participate in Burggit, and honestly, I was barely able to fund it. Though I eventually did come back, but it was never like how it was before I got sick.

My financial and physical resources decreased significantly as a result of my health, I can't manage or juggle as much as I could and I will probably forever have a slower paced life because of the events that transpired.

Then there's the Lemmy software. The amount of hoops that burger has to go to in order to bring you this site is ridiculous. To give you an idea of how bad this software is, there's no easy way to check all the images uploaded to the site (such as through private messages). When the obvious concern of potential illegal imagery is brought up to lemmy devs, they shrug and say to plug in an expensive AI image checker to scan for illegal imagery. That response genuinely has me thinking that this is by design, and they want it to be like this. We can't even easily look at the list of registered users without looking through the DB, absolute insanity.

The other thing is there's no real way to manage storage properly in Lemmy, the storage caches every image ever uploaded to any instance forever.

Also the software is constantly breaking.

This site has become more of a burden for us, for me financially as I have been the sole person funding it (aside from like 2 or 3 individuals who donated a bit ago, thank you to those people.) It's just not worth our time anymore and it's not something I want to fund anymore. People seem to like this instance, so much so that it feels like the second it goes down we're made aware of it. But, aside from that we're on our own. We're only federated with a few instances due to the way the threadiverse is, we've been literally locked into our own bubble and have been funding this project and been allocating time (sometimes a lot of time) into making it operational. We just don't have the ability to do that anymore, not unless something big changes, but I don't see that coming.

Now you might be wondering, "What about the Sharkey?" The Sharkey is easy to manage, is widely federated and is easy to manage storage and much cheaper to fund. It doesn't cause even a third of the hassle Lemmy does.

I'm very sorry to make this announcement. Both Burger and I were trying as much as we could to keep this up as long as possible, but it has officially reached a point where we just can't do it anymore.

The network Burggit is on is experiencing performance issues. I'd encourage everyone to use shota.nu for right now if you can. I talked to the host about this and evidently it's an upstream issue with the datacenter.

The datacenter is refusing to help out with this and thinks everything is working fine so there's plans for migrating to a new datacenter that are underway sometime soon. So in the meantime, I'm afraid we need to just grin and bear it.

Lemmy errors out if the NFS mount is nonresponsive. It doesn't like not being able to access the huge swathe of pictures that are stored on the server. I've switched the NFS mount to TCP and have it retry the connection every second in an effort to mitigate the severe packet loss.

As I was composing this, the packet loss shot up to 90% so I don't think even that will help...

That's really all I can do for right now. I wish there was more that I could do to resolve this... 😔

After getting email working for sister site, https://kbin.burggit.moe, I quickly added it to here too. So password resets should be a thing here now. Kbin has a strict requirement for functioning email to verify users. There's no setting to toggle it off.

Now why am I messing around with Kbin? Well, it's because the future of Lemmy seems to be a bit uncertain, in my opinion. A lot of what people want isn't getting implemented and there's only so much that two main devs can do. So I've been messing around with Kbin in the meantime. I personally like how it can federate with more software, so we won't feel nearly as cut off from the fediverse as a whole vs the Lemmyverse. Signups are open, so you're free to play around with it on there too, if you wish. The same rules from here apply to there too, so keep that in mind.

I used this guide to learn how to use it: https://unofficial-kbin-guide.surge.sh/

People have been having issues with uploading images/videos to Burggit sometimes, usually a lemmy issue that we have no control over. Well now we have https://shota.nu feel free to upload your embeddable files there and embed them directly into Burggit! think of it as Imgur, but less retarded!

Check it out: https://shota.nu Keep uploaded content within Burggit Rules

important note: uploaded data is NOT encrypted. For encrypted temporary file sharing, try Shota Send instead.

Important note #2: Make sure to use the direct link when embedding files! It will look something like https://shota.nu/ss/yourfileid.extension. If it does not have the /ss/ it's not a direct link and will not embed properly on lemmy.

{
  "Version": "13.1.0",
  "DestinationType": "ImageUploader, TextUploader, FileUploader",
  "RequestMethod": "PUT",
  "RequestURL": "https://shota.nu/upload/",
  "Headers": {
    "Accept": "application/json",
    "Linx-Delete-Key": null,
    "Linx-Access-Key": null
  },
  "Body": "Binary",
  "URL": "$json:direct_url$",
  "DeletionURL": "https://shota.nu/delete/$json:filename$?linx-delete-key=$json:delete_key$"
}

Keep in mind this data is compared to https://fba.ryona.agency/?domain=burggit.moe .

If a defederated instance is not on there then it'll show up here:

https://instances.burggit.moe/

This post is kind of to address the problem of discoverability that was mentioned here: https://burggit.moe/post/9009

I'm going to add a link to all our current NSFW communities, if you make one feel free to link it in the comments of this post to help with increased discoverability.

The List

https://burggit.moe/c/2d_booty

https://burggit.moe/c/asiannsfw

https://burggit.moe/c/audio_gonewild

https://burggit.moe/c/animilfs (allows non-female, like futas and newhalfs)

https://burggit.moe/c/bdsm

https://burggit.moe/c/beastclub

https://burggit.moe/c/bukkake

https://burggit.moe/c/clop

https://burggit.moe/c/cub

https://burggit.moe/c/cumfetish

https://burggit.moe/c/cumsluts

https://burggit.moe/c/cunny

https://burggit.moe/c/dildogag

https://burggit.moe/c/dickgirl_hentai

https://burggit.moe/c/dirtypenpals

https://burggit.moe/c/doujinshi

https://burggit.moe/c/femboyhentai

https://burggit.moe/c/femdom

https://burggit.moe/c/feet34

https://burggit.moe/c/gonewild

https://burggit.moe/c/hentaimilfs

https://burggit.moe/c/incest

https://burggit.moe/c/incest_hentai

https://burggit.moe/c/learn_hentai_drawing_uncaged

https://burggit.moe/c/lewd

https://burggit.moe/c/lewd_ai

https://burggit.moe/c/lewdmen

https://burggit.moe/c/loli_shota

https://burggit.moe/c/massivemilkers

https://burggit.moe/c/nsfw_leaks

https://burggit.moe/c/omorashi_art

https://burggit.moe/c/ophentai

https://burggit.moe/c/palworld_nsfw

https://burggit.moe/c/pokeloli

https://burggit.moe/c/pokemon_hentai

https://burggit.moe/c/pokemon_porn (Less restrictive Pokémon community.)

https://burggit.moe/c/pornhwa

https://burggit.moe/c/predicament_hentai

https://burggit.moe/c/rapehentai

https://burggit.moe/c/rule34

https://burggit.moe/c/saohentai

https://burggit.moe/c/shota

https://burggit.moe/c/straightshota

https://burggit.moe/c/somnohentai

https://burggit.moe/c/smthentai

https://burggit.moe/c/tentacles

https://burggit.moe/c/torturehentai

https://burggit.moe/c/touhou_nsfw

https://burggit.moe/c/watersports_art

https://burggit.moe/c/whatwouldyoudowithher

https://burggit.moe/c/yandere_hentai

https://burggit.moe/c/yandere_hentai_unhinged (Less restrictive Yandere Hentai community)

https://burggit.moe/c/zoophilia (For Discussion Only)

Might have missed one, but I think that's all of them.

We have decided to open up donations.

Please note; Donations or supporting us is entirely optional and not at all required!

Donate directly Using Monero (XMR): 892ajXvfr1LbCgT2Jv52ZKHgK3ZHd2gED7ay9NnrGPWsP4wNsUT38b1TEd3tnQB8MjTNGSwKhfA9ugnPrRmxTaXX9yzc92W

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Trocador is our preferred processor when donating other cryptocurrencies. No matter what crypto you choose to donate, we receive the donation in Monero, this increases convenience for you and for us. Also, they don't require or ask for any personal information.

Plisio

Plisio will ask for email to help keep track of your donation, these are not validated, you can put in a fake/invalid email.

Support in other ways!

You can also help us out by checking out some of these services.

For transparency: While Burggit actively uses the following services for it's operation, your use of said services will give some form of kickback/compensation.

Click the below spoiler tag to reveal the other ways you can support Burggit.

All that's required is your browser of choice. This installs it as a progressive webapp.

The app will show up on your home screen. There's no way to add it to your app drawer sadly..

This will serve as a solution until the native apps are up to par. Or if other completed projects like RedReader decide to add Lemmy support.