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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by gavi to c/lemmynsfw

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Any critiques, desire for clarity, outright hatred, whatever have you. I will respond the best I can.

I know there's been some blowback on some of the policy updates but it's been difficult to really explain fully that the restrictive content policy is temporary, this community was very unmanaged for a time and it had to be reigned in somehow and with the limited tools at disposal the temporary policy changes were made.

Here's a comment that also explains a little bit behind the decisions made recently as well.

For community mods, we have a community mod coord matrix group chat now. Feel free to DM about it.

Also, there's another ongoing discussion regarding SFW communities on lemmyNSFW here.

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[–] EldritchBagel 8 points 2 years ago (6 children)

My initial impressions as a new lemmy user: Sure, it could use more content, bugfixes, discoverability, and so on. But it's the reddit alternative I've been looking for. I see so much potential and I think I can finally make the switch for good.

However, since then it's been constant bans and defederations that have somehow made it more restrictive than reddit. I have no interest in and will never understand the appeal of communities like scat, vore, guro etc. but I think that they have a right to exist and greatly contribute to that "early internet" feel. The stance towards most fictional/drawn content seems fairly arbitrary as well.

I understand the reasoning behind these restrictions given the state of lemmy right now, but I really hope this is as temporary as you say.

Once lemmy matures to a point where some of the more controversal content is not automatically promoted to other instances by default (like in /all) and there are better ways to filter and tag content, can we expect a return from the more edgy communities? Will lemmyNSFW really federate with more instances? Because the current state of things along with statements from previous admins make the instance feel pretty hostile right now.

[–] Limeey 2 points 2 years ago

I think once we can clarify the legal standard we (as admins) and our hosting is going to be held to, we'll be able to. There's a general concern that if we aren't absurdly proactive and protective then one of us might end up in jail for this instance, and no one wants that.

But we also don't really have any money for lawyers, too, so like, it's hard to figure this out.

In my estimation, assuming communities have competent and responsive and rule abiding moderators, I don't see why these communities can't exist.

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