Because of the nature of federation posts and comments on LemmyNSFW communities will live on basically forever. However the photos and videos will likely be lost. Some were links to external media and will stick around, some may be cached. But most photos and videos that were uploaded directly to the instance will break when the server fully goes down.
For example: [NSFW, OBVIOUSLY] !boobs@lemmynsfw.com - that link should load fine on your instance. It should look functional just with no new posts. (Note: it’s actually possible to post and comment in these communities still, but only people in your instance will see it)
The images are served from links like these: (mild NSFW) https://lemmynsfw.com/pictrs/image/d50379d3-7d64-440c-bcf6-13dbf2b81c1b.webp?format=webp
The fact that the images still load is a somewhat hopeful sign. The server is still running, Lemmy just crashed. There’s still time for the head admin to come back, the data still exists. This seems unlikely though as the other admin says they haven’t heard from them since October.
So there’s a small window to archive this stuff, if you’re interested. Between now and whenever the media server crashes or gets shut off for non-payment.
I do miss the amateur content, ngl - people often say to just go to porn sites, and I get it, but there is a reason tumblr, reddit, etc etc always develop a nsfw underbelly and if the fediverse could crack that nut (heh) it would be great imho; although, the more I think about it, OF has killed off the vast majority of ppl just doing it for fun.
As someone who’s done it for fun and dated people who’ve done it for money. Yeah I stick to amateurs for a reason. It’s great to pay sex workers, but amateurs have a certain vibe. It’s one where I know you’re having fun because that’s the only reason you’re doing this
Yup couldn’t agree more. I think that’s also why certain big name stars get really popular, they are freaks and they are genuinely loving what they are doing - that comes across the screen, no matter how good of an actress/actor you are… also another reason why there are niches for couples, as that intimacy is hard to fake.
OF has killed off the vast majority of ppl just doing it for fun.
With Instragram as the “creator front page.” Patreon too, on the digital art side.
It’s so weird how OF gets to pretend it isn’t a porn site, and somehow get along with banks that would normally turn their nose up to a literal porn site.
Don’t forget the day OnlyFans announced it was going to go clean. That was a long week or so before they walked that back.
It is also interesting to notice the OF actually isn’t all adult content.
They ban a shitton of kinks on OF, you can’t even piss on there. It’s incredibly censored because of the payment processors.
Makes more sense once you realize who owns OF.
Leonid Radvinsky. Never heard of him. Why does that explain it?
It is weird, completely agree, and I think finding that loophole is how they won (obv they were not the fist site promoting cam girls)
My conspiracy theory is they have so much dirt on the finance world that it gives them leverage.
What if there were to be a “data breach” of what they’ve been subscribe too…
There’s always redgifs
Really sucks. It’s hard to find a place other than here or Reddit that doesn’t require a payment or ID verification to post amateur media
I mean I could plug my shit. https://goatmatrix.net/
It’s not super active on the nsfw front but I’m open to it. You’ve just got to hit “hidden from front” on nsfw content.
Any sub exists. Just submit to any topic.Hopefully that plug isn’t unwelcome, but you really can use it.
I’m not archiving porn dude. There’s plenty more out there. It’ll be ok.
Like all things Lemmy, I’m pretty sure there were some pretty obscure NSFW stuff posted in niche communities.
The more it is obscure it is the more chance thst it is completely illegal content
A truly ignorant, judgmental, and narrowminded take.
It is not. Big porn websites have sophisticated systems to remove illegal content, so people who want to share illegal content will go to an obscure platform and an obscure community.
The instance was defederated by many instances for illegal content
Excuse you. My kink for specifically blond hairy left feet is Not illegal.
Oh it’s not my thing. But some people are archivists
B…but think of future generations… think of the children!
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If anything, getting the logs from that server would be interesting, to see if Lemmy’s long-term stability can be improved.
If I remember right the images are all hosted on catbox not on lemmynsfw itself. I’m not sure why they’re still accessible, I was never told how the backend was set up beyond that, but it does mean that the images are only available until catbox times them out.
I don’t think so. These pict-rs links are standard Lemmy image hosting.
https://lemmynsfw.com/pictrs/image/d50379d3-7d64-440c-bcf6-13dbf2b81c1b.webp?format=webp
Huh. This was from a conversation with said missing admin so I may just be misremembering.
I still have hundreds of communities from lemmynsfw in my blocklist from before instance based blocking was implemented. Pretty sure lemmynsfw is 95% responsible for that feature needing to be implemented.
lemmy.ml blocking lemmynsfw by default has been one of the nicer parts about using this server
Yeah, I’m all for a place like that existing, but it really doesn’t need to exist in my timeline, which I might scroll while I’m on the bus or such…
