this post was submitted on 26 Jan 2024
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There are issues that have been on my mind for a few days, and I wanted to talk about them with you.

Downvotes

As you may notice, downvotes have been completely off for the last few days. I did this because I couldn't resist the pressure of some friends :/ I still don't know what to do about this. The majority of members probably want it to be completely open. As mods, posters and admins; some think it should be closed, some think it should be restricted (I guess).

I guess there is no solution that makes everyone happy. I realized I don't have admin skills in stressful situations, I'm a fucking stupid lol :D I miss @gabe so much.

lemmyposter212 suggested "fuzzy votes" or something that can work for us too. I think I'll just ghost this issue for a while.

Donations

As you know, all our donation accounts have been closed. Since it was my first time opening a site in the NSFW area, I had no experience. I reviewed some adult donation sites but most of them were shady. Honestly I couldn't trust them.

There are only coins now. But I guess most people don't want to deal with coins. It is because I didn't get any donations about 4 months now :D Those sent from Github Sponsor or Patreon were also returned to donators as well. I received $200-ish donations so far.

We are currently the 2nd largest instance in Lemmy. After lemmy.world, we're bigger than lemmy.ml and lemm.ee! I don't think it will work this way anymore. On an annual basis, I need to spend a month's salary for Lemmy NSFW.

Does anyone have an idea to solve this problem?

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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (12 children)

Does anyone have an idea to solve this problem?

What about a patreon?

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[–] PenghisKahn@reddthat.com 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

My home instance uses opencollective.com to manage donations. Idk much about it butt maybe that could work?

[–] yay@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 9 months ago

Open Collective is ok but we need a fiscal host in it that allow us. I have applied to some of them but no positive response yet.

[–] BigMcLargeHuge@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 9 months ago

I'm against disabling downvotes but I'm not that bothered by it.

I did come here to point out that the alternate UI links at the top of the page don't work.

[–] mammalian@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

If you can find a way to take money via credit card and not crypto, I'll be happy to donate.

Might have to become the first Lemmy instance with ads 🤷‍♂️

[–] yay@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 9 months ago

I'm trying that 👍 BTW hot milfs in your are wants to chat with you 💋

[–] sasoni75@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

what was the problem with donations in the first place? also couldn't use something like epoch payments ? Why not do something similar to fet life, where they promote in the very right side, but we will promote with posts, 1-2 posts per page with an ad, in worst case scenario. Maybe we should charge OF models? /Joke

Regarding downvotes, I want to mention the incident, where I posted SFW in my community and got downvoted, and then some users went over !womenwithwatches@feddit.de and downvoted couple posts!
Are they crazy? nuts? they have nothing else to do, but find certain posts and downvote them ? lol

Downvote should be used to bury things that dont fit in a community, until the report takes place! If you use it to downvote every post you dont like, its pointless!

edit: I just found this one https://www.wishtender.com/, its mainly used from findom people but could work.

[–] rootbeer_goat@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 9 months ago

Not sure if anyone has mentioned subscribestar.adult as an option for donations similar to patreon

[–] ParityOrbit@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The most common payment providers for NSFW sites is Epoch or CCbill I know some fairly small sites that use them and have mostly no issues with them. However I have heard their customer service isn't the best. Unfortunately payment in the NSFW field is in need of a shake up.

[–] yay@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 9 months ago (4 children)

I applied both of them but no luck 🙂

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[–] mammalian@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Cost saving idea: if you could find a way so that media posted goes out to the IPFS network, it could help with the bandwidth needs potentially. But the apps would need to support it too, and the web view wouldn't probably get much benefit unless the user's browser supported IPFS too

[–] yay@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 9 months ago

I actually believe IPFS or torrents would work but as you said, Lemmy itself and all clients should support it too.

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