Given the extend of this project, I think it might worth coordinating together those who are interested right now if possible so we can have more than one person who can tend to the backend and coordinate hosting. Might even be best to have people from different time zones just for increased response time. Just a thought!
Don't worry, its not going anywhere.
Are you based in the US and familiar with dealing with the legal end of hosting this kinda stuff/would be comfortable doing so? For transparency I am not the person to talk about this with, @yay is, I am just curious.
Where are your servers based if you don't mind me asking? Feel free to DM if you don't want that to be public info lol
I was admin-ed after its deletion, for clarify.
I wish there should be a way to have communities opt-in in regards to federation without fully defederating. Like, instead of completely pulling the plug a way of preventing things from entering all would ideal. Same thing with instance wide NSFW tagging.
There is. Right now it seems to be a matter of finding someone willing to take on backend stuff.
For now, no changes. Whenever things are expected to change, announcements will be made. Right now it seems a matter of finding someone who can take on the backend stuff.
I agree. Presenting a united front within the admin team is likely the best way to move forward from here, as well as to best move forward and address some recent problems. I think communities like these are important, specifically well managed NSFW communities. NSFW communities are going to exist regardless, but careful coordinated moderation really needs to be a priority to make it a space that fosters content that can exist in a legal and safe fashion. I feel also if this community is going to survive and maintain federation with other instances, there needs to be a means of establishing direct communication with other instance admins. I've reached out to some yiffit admins today to try and create a line of communication at least on that end. I think generally though that instance admins even outside of lemmynsfw need to coordinate together regardless and have open lines of communication to make sure their communities are interacting in healthy ways as well. That open line of communication between instance management helped mastodon stabilize as a community when a bunch of users flooded in.
Instead of downvoting with no response I feel like its worth clarifying, from what I have discussed (to my own knowledge) the intention was not to intentionally invite illegal underage nsfw content or content that is hard to discern from such. There was a desire to establish community transparency on the matter and engage in a discussion on the nuances of such a rule and how far the limits should reach, and it wasn't really handled well due to a very big language barrier not being able to properly convey the intended conversation in the way it was meant to be presented. FWIW, I am very much personally against loli/shota content and wouldn't have offered to help out if this wasn't the case.
American law is honestly just deeply convoluted and annoying. Having to take into account the 50 mini countries in a trench coat hyper-specific legalities is so fun!
I made a matrix group room to try and corral and at least attempt to figure this out together. Check DMs.