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Pretty sure this is cute butts. Not photoshopped butts.

Separate comments so it can be kept separate from the important bits.

I don't want to go the second route

You may not want to make money of your users, that's admirable, and honestly a nice thing to see. Presumably, someone who is interested in running this instance ALSO doesn't want to turn their users into a cash cow, your post suggests that's the only value to be had here, and is kind of forcing that as the only option.

Presumably someone might be willing to take on the costs of running this out of good will. But that good will is squandered if they must first pay a market rate which assumes the users worth is measured only in their monetization ability. And not by the community, or as a hobby.

This is the bad taste I was talking about. I'm not attacking your resources, effort....etc here. I'm trying to start a dialog.

Here's a lightbulb moment: stuff costs money and time, even if it's on the internet. Whatever you get for free

Alex. It's entirely unnecessary to be this hostile. I host websites, services, and build software for a living. I'm well aware of the time & resource costs of doing this... I made no claim otherwise.

I clearly approached this with good faith, asking specific, pointed, questions to surface important facts about this instance. NONE of these where answered or addressed.

I offhandedly mentioned the taste of the posts tone, and moved on saying "You probably have your reasons" to indicate I'm not attacking you. It's just my opinion, and moved on.

Do you feel in some way entitled to my and PL's team time and resources? Have you contributed in any way to PL, financially or otherwise, so you can have a little say of its future? Or is this a "Entertain me, peasants" mentality?

• Nowhere did I make any claims of entitlement.
• Nowhere did I complain about the content.
• Nowhere did I attack, discredit, or trivialize the resource it takes to run the instance.

You're attacking ghosts and lashing out at me. I understand you probably have gotten a lot of flak running an instance, but that's no reason to be so hostile and insulting.

Especially if you're goal is to actually sell the thing.

The important thing here, the bulk of my previous comment, is what matters. Do you have additional information for those questions?

If you're serious about offloading this instance, then lets focus on the things that matter here, which are the facts about the instance, not the egos?

How it this measured? How is it trending? What is the actual dollar value you are evaluating this at? What are the operating costs?

Welp, guess the bot content and spam-posting will always rise to the top now :/

As a matter of price:

250k uniques. How is this measured? How many are from other instances? How many from mobile apps? How many on desktop? How many are actually unique? How are you counting users?

$0.005 ARPU is quite dependant on how users are actually measured. How long do they stay? What % drops off after how many navigations? What does your engagement look like?

Is this assuming 250k unique hits is 250k revenue generating users? What is the time frame for you ARPU?

There's a lot to know if this is being used like a product and you are trying to sell it as such.

As a matter of taste:

This sounds like the objective of starting the community was money 🤔

Having limited time & resources makes sense, life just be that way, but essentially saying "donations aren't enough to purchase my time" indicates a whole other motivation that's inherently counter productive to the platform IMHO.

I'm sure you have your reasons, but the post is kinda snobby about it.

This needs more details!

Welcome to community spam, it sucks :/

TFW you don't even know what pedophilia is, but decide to have an opinion on it anyways.... ^Of course I'm sure there's a human out there that through some disease or abnormality never went through puberty, and still appear as if they are prepubescent.^

You are, however, correct in that attraction is involuntary, it is not something one is able to control, and can have attraction forced upon them.

Even if your partner did find that attractive that would just mean that they, like the grand majority of the population, are attracted to the sexually mature/maturing 16-18 range. Something like 10 years too old to be pedophilia.

This is a statement of fact not a statement of opinion, nor a statement of acceptance or encouragement. I say this preemptively because there are always those commenters who will attack you personally because they're trying to manufacture outrage. Making it impossible to talk about real world subjects.

Manufactured outrage is largely to blame for a lot of the cultural war issues that we deal with these days...

Finding something to be outraged at for finding someone to be outraged on behalf of even if the person who you are now acting for has no feelings of the sort. All it is is a brand new form of red herring politics that drains energy from real problems that we could be solving.

It's self-serving and encourages and even drives toxicity.

Naked petite adults that look like 17/18/19 year klds by the looks of it.

I assume the controversy is that these people appear as if they are not quite 18 yet. Which, remember, is not child porn, even if they where 17 depending on your western country.

That's besides the point though, as they appear to all be consenting adults, making such a point moot anyways.

It should be purged why?

Which seems fine, why would lemmynsfw try and federate with lots of other non-nsfw instances anyways? People are driven to making nsfw alts, and porn is one of those content types that enjoy long term organic growth without any advertising as users explicitly seek it out.

Isn't a forum, as a concept, exactly what each Lemmy instance is?

As for growth, you will grow organically without explicit federation with non-nsfw instances. Lemmeynsfw is the porn Lemmy right now. You don't need to have your porn popping up elsewhere for users to find you.

The content of this instance is such that:

1. User's are likely to create porn alts
2. User's are going to actively seek you out

Which means growth is guaranteed. Nevermind that explicitly trying to grow a community through non-organic means (where the community needs to make concessions for growth) harm communities instead of making them better.