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There are issues that have been on my mind for a few days, and I wanted to talk about them with you.

Downvotes

As you may notice, downvotes have been completely off for the last few days. I did this because I couldn't resist the pressure of some friends :/ I still don't know what to do about this. The majority of members probably want it to be completely open. As mods, posters and admins; some think it should be closed, some think it should be restricted (I guess).

I guess there is no solution that makes everyone happy. I realized I don't have admin skills in stressful situations, I'm a fucking stupid lol :D I miss @gabe so much.

lemmyposter212 suggested "fuzzy votes" or something that can work for us too. I think I'll just ghost this issue for a while.

Donations

As you know, all our donation accounts have been closed. Since it was my first time opening a site in the NSFW area, I had no experience. I reviewed some adult donation sites but most of them were shady. Honestly I couldn't trust them.

There are only coins now. But I guess most people don't want to deal with coins. It is because I didn't get any donations about 4 months now :D Those sent from Github Sponsor or Patreon were also returned to donators as well. I received $200-ish donations so far.

We are currently the 2nd largest instance in Lemmy. After lemmy.world, we're bigger than lemmy.ml and lemm.ee! I don't think it will work this way anymore. On an annual basis, I need to spend a month's salary for Lemmy NSFW.

Does anyone have an idea to solve this problem?

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[โ€“] mammalian@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you can find a way to take money via credit card and not crypto, I'll be happy to donate.

Might have to become the first Lemmy instance with ads ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

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[โ€“] sasoni75@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

what was the problem with donations in the first place? also couldn't use something like epoch payments ? Why not do something similar to fet life, where they promote in the very right side, but we will promote with posts, 1-2 posts per page with an ad, in worst case scenario. Maybe we should charge OF models? /Joke

Regarding downvotes, I want to mention the incident, where I posted SFW in my community and got downvoted, and then some users went over !womenwithwatches@feddit.de and downvoted couple posts!
Are they crazy? nuts? they have nothing else to do, but find certain posts and downvote them ? lol

Downvote should be used to bury things that dont fit in a community, until the report takes place! If you use it to downvote every post you dont like, its pointless!

edit: I just found this one https://www.wishtender.com/, its mainly used from findom people but could work.

Not sure if anyone has mentioned subscribestar.adult as an option for donations similar to patreon

[โ€“] ParityOrbit@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The most common payment providers for NSFW sites is Epoch or CCbill I know some fairly small sites that use them and have mostly no issues with them. However I have heard their customer service isn't the best. Unfortunately payment in the NSFW field is in need of a shake up.

[โ€“] yay@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I applied both of them but no luck ๐Ÿ™‚

[โ€“] ParityOrbit@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Really? Is it a incorporation problem?

[โ€“] yay@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They want us to be a for-profit organization and not a donation driven site.

[โ€“] ParityOrbit@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They do accept non-profit organizations as well, but I'm going to guess you're not officially that either.

[โ€“] knobpolisher@feddit.nl 1 points 5 months ago

Excuse my (possible) naitivety; but where are specific subgroups within this server? So can't folks post specific content to those subgroups?

If you're a dude posting your dick, post it to "dicks@lemmynsfw"

Or if you are posting your pussy, same thing, put it on "pussy@lemmynsfw"

It seems to me that if people are doing that, then when people subscribe to a subgroups, they will end up seeing what they want to see.

Or heck, create a subgroup "dicks&pussy@lemmynsfw"

Just trying to think about how to create a situation where upvotes / down votes are less critical to users.

[โ€“] mammalian@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cost saving idea: if you could find a way so that media posted goes out to the IPFS network, it could help with the bandwidth needs potentially. But the apps would need to support it too, and the web view wouldn't probably get much benefit unless the user's browser supported IPFS too

[โ€“] yay@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 1 year ago

I actually believe IPFS or torrents would work but as you said, Lemmy itself and all clients should support it too.

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