I had an account on lemmy.one and now the instance has been down for a day or two so I made this new account. I also heard other small instances are dead or disappeared.

So which ones do you think will actually stick around for a long time?

ALSO, does anyone know how to get my subscriptions from lemmy.one and import it here? TIA!

  • kglitch@kglitch.social
    672·
    1 year ago

    Instances with

    more than one admin
    clear policies and active moderation
    engaged user base
    regular backups
    no porn

    …will stand a better chance than most.

    • Polar@lemmy.caEnglish
      283·
      1 year ago

      No porn? Why?

      .ca allows porn. You actually have to click “show NSFW” during sign up if you want to see it, so it’s not on by default, and it’s very easy to turn on/off if you want it.

      I find that the instances that ban porn also ban a lot of other stuff that isn’t bad. Feels like I’m in church and everything is being censored.

      • kglitch@kglitch.social
        194·
        1 year ago

        Surely keeping the csam out means someone on every nsfw instance needs to look at a whooole lotta porn, including sick stuff they really really don’t want to see. For no pay. I can’t see a way for that to last long so either an instance bans porn or stops moderating and gets defederated.

        • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
          6·
          1 year ago

          Sure, but isn’t that something all of the instances will have to deal with, whether they allow nsfw content or not, I bet people will try to post it. And the trolls/sabouteurs will go for the sick shit.

          • kglitch@kglitch.social
            71·
            1 year ago

            Yeah, true, although it’ll be a lot worse for the mods on nsfw instances where they need to make a judgement call about what crossed which line or not. That’s 10x more difficult than just deleting everything that gets reported enough times.

        • Gamey@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          I could see a better chance with one of the experienced porn Admins from Reddit, they have years of experience and are probably used to even worse shit!

    • gabe [he/him]@literature.cafeEnglish
      161·
      1 year ago

      I’m hopeful that the well moderated nsfw instances stick around so no 4chan-esque instances have a chance to replace them and metastasize past mass defederation

      • spaghetti_carbanana@krabb.orgEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Same here lol. I’m keen to keep this instance going even if I end up being the only user. I’ve toyed with the idea of what I might do if I did end up with a bunch of users (would i cap at a certain amount of usrrs, how would I put the feelers out to get mods, etc).

        The “niche” I’m going for is no reliance on public cloud. I run everything on my own hardware, back it up myself, scale it as needed and maintain it myself. That won’t appeal to everyone, but I’m not trying to be the biggest instance.