I definitly think it makes more sense to allow communities, even if they dont make the most sense overall. I mean its not really harming anyone, and people can just block it if they dont want to see it (i think most people usually browse by subscribed anyway)

Yes I'm sure and i know that's going to be difficult. Illegal content needs to be prevented on the site. Currently my understandings are that the tools available through Lemmy are slim, and much will start out as a manual process, and pressuring/ ensuring mods are active in patrolling their own communities to the greatest degree possible. However I understand that the buck would stop with me, not with the mods at the end of the day. Shit rolls uphill and if communities are unsafe that would be a failure on whoever hosts this for not providing support to mods, or for allowing unsafe communities to propagate.

I also understand that realistically its going to be a job where you get alot of hate for just about all your decisions :/

I would be able to,i would need information on what it is currently hosted on and access info, but i should otherwise be able to transfer it without issue.

Im a software engineer with a very stable job with flexible hours, and ive been looking for a long term project to get into. if it were transferred to me i could ensure a stable long term home for it. Edit:changing to=>for

It really should. If you feel like "people consensually shitting on eachother" is the same as "people raping children" then you need to realize there's a difference between " I don't like this" and "this is illegal, rape, and deeply damaging to society"

Thanks for all your work on this, if you end up having a hard time finding someone I would definitly be up for it.

It was under its own community, they just banned that community

Who are you to define what is nsfl. There are people in here arguing consensual non consent is nsfl. How long till furry or trans communities are banned too

I mean if we are banning individual fetishes, where do you draw the line...

Not Safe For Life has never to my knowledge conventionally included scat/extreme fetishes. I've always heard it used to describe things like gore, death, etc.

One other issue with voting on weather fetishes are acceptable is you risk the stability of other subs. For example if people recognize that they can get fetishes tagged as nsfl and removed what happens when a conservative group comes in and targets the multiple trans communities we have here stating they are nsfl. And after that they could reasonably expand that to futas. And so on...

Personally i think the rule should be removed, as long as the other rule regarding all characters appearing over 18 stays in place. Its very difficult to find the canonical age for all characters people post to hentai subs, and if the instance gains traction that will only get harder. Also the cononical age rule in my opinion brings up more problems than it solves due to "3000 year old dragon loli's" which in my opinion are obviously loli bait and should be banned, but would technically be over the canonical age line.

so i look at hentai similar to cosplays, if the person cosplaying a character is 30, i see it as that character at 30. If at 14 year old were cosplaying a 30 year old, thinking about them sexually would be predatory and trash.

One of the other issues, is there are fetishes that are less controversial (Itty Bitty Titty Comitty) that depending on how you define sexual characteristics are actually riskier legally/ethically than an age adjusted character (let alone more controversial fetishes like ABDL,Size Differences, etc)

I think at the end of the day, as long as the admins are staunchly against CP, we should be able to see if any communities are posting it. CP in my opinion is very much like porn in that its hard to define but you know when you see it.

Someone else here had a smarter idea honestly of haveing a 48 hour buffer and using the reddit apis up vote ratio, and total karma to filter out alot of the spam. Honestly when I built this I had missed that part of the api, so I'm probably going to rework it in a bit

Sorry i wanted to add one more thing: it would be really nice if there was a way to do this without flooding new... as i think the people doing this dont really want to impact other communities (I just realized this is an issue, as i started porting content before realizing)

One way we could try to minimize impact ( which is what im going to do for now) is ask anyone porting content to do it in off hours (like midnight EST would cover all of US and most of europe ?)

I the past few days have been working on a quick c# app to simply pull the last 24 hour posts on a subreddit, and allow me to click a button to upload them individually here to kickstart a community to replace the subreddit. I think like what alot of people are saying these tools can help seed communities and boost engagement. i think in the long term we should start to block these tools, but i dont think the time is yet. This is still a new group, and while some communities on this instance are sizable, others are way to small to be sustainable yet :/

Also If we could hopefully prevent the massive amount of content on reddit from disapearing, and give a place to preserve that that would definitly be amazing. although thats easy for me to say as the one who isnt hosting the files :/ (although for some communities the actual data for that isnt that significant, and since lemmy doesnt support galleries yet, galleries are still hosted offsite)

Anyway thanks so much for the work you all are doing, I appreciate that you all went out of your way to enable communities and users to migrate off of reddit and hopefully to help form a better platform.