This is a core lemmy enhancement. I don't believe this is currently on their radar. I will add it to ours and see what that would take. It might not be feasible to implement on our instance alone but if we can work it out I'll try to get it merged into lemmy.
This is a core lemmy enhancement we'd have to make. I'm looking into better video handling, but the core dev team would need to accept that code change. If you're using an app you'll need to raise this with the app developer.
I don't speak for the entire admin team, but I don't think we have any interest in policing the community creation provided they have enough moderators to prevent abuse compared to their level of activity (re: huge communities need more mods than small)
We are looking into users who create communities en-masse and are not active.
Kbin is a completely different code base than lemmy. They both use the activitypub communication protocol but implement it differently.
Communities don't have that metadata of "type" or "genre" or "kink" lol - that would have to be manually generated and maintained.
I am open to developing some way to do that, but I don't know what. And in any case, I can't be the one to write those descriptions.
I think it's mostly up to the community moderators to determine whether or not they want that content and how they will police it. As long as it doesn't break site rules (new rules and clarification coming soon) then it's not really something we want to micromanage.
With that said, link spamming is def not ok. I'm open to suggestions on how we can build out the toolchain that can ensure a good quality of posts.
The post you likely saw was wrong and was working off an outdated draft that was not accepted by the rest of the admins. There will be an update soon from gavi.
I will take a look, thanks for letting us know
So I'm not really an "admin" - I'm a sysadmin/developer who was given the role of admin so I can make sure all systems (including modlog, reportings, and other tools) work as we adjust them for this instance's very specific needs.
Padded got banned because he was trying to sabotage the efforts of an entirely volunteer group including revealing our hosting provider. We are not a "non profit organization" - lemmynsfw is a volunteer instance being run on donations. People need to understand that this is no one's "job" and yet it's literally taking a ton of our time. I've spent so many hours pouring over lemmy code, system configurations, working with the mod tool group, brainstorming, writing code, and trying to help the real admins where I can...
And seriously, no one is being paid for this, donations barely cover server costs, and any excess donations are being saved because it's anticipated that server costs will continue to rise while donations don't. Besides, I don't think any of us WANT to be paid for fear of reprisal from our respective governments for "making money" off serving pornography.
When the creator put out his call for help, a bunch of us stepped up to try to keep the server alive, but this is not an easy instance to run. Please understand that.
ios Memmy is great and has an option to unblur nsfw
I expect we'll need to patch our own tools, the nsfw angle is very specific that the core lemmy devs probably don't want to deal with. Let me know how I can assist and where
Because we're an NSFW instance and hosting is typically not always stoked about that, we would rather not provide disgruntled users with the information they can use to bombard our provider and make it easier for them to just kill our access. Our current hosting is OK with it.
More importantly, you should know that when you post here your content is federated and sent to other servers too. We're working on systems to prevent them from going to servers that don't or can't want that. So if you're concerned over "who is hosting your content" you shouldn't post anything on lemmy, because federation means EVERYONE is.