Alex @pornlemmy.com Admin of this site. Don't hesitate to DM or email me for any issue.
Don't mean to break your style, but I want to point out you've been trolled by an AI.
Yes, that's what happens when users don't support the platform. With Lemmy, there's an unspoken convention that admins make their site available to users with the same stability and performance as the big names but without any of the bad parts like tracking or ads, and the users donate to keep it that way. The PornLemmy team has done its part, but out of the 300,000 users only a single digit have shown support, so it is a you reap what you sow situation.
I'll update it to 0.19, but it won't be very soon. (most likely after the holidays)
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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.
Here's a lightbulb moment: stuff costs money and time, even if it's on the internet. Whatever you get for free isn't free - either you pay to get something from a provider, or the provider makes money off you in some way. I don't want to go the second route, and the 250k visitors have voted with their wallets so the first route is closed. 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?
PornLemmy available for sale
Hey everyone, since total cumulative donations for the last 3 months were less than $200 (~ $60/month), even though PornLemmy has an average of 250k uniques per month with peaks of 300k+, I have dropped plans for improvements (new frontend + backend tweaking) and will only spend $60/month worth of time and resources on PL. I won't put ads or gather personal data for profit, but I am open to selling to someone who will. Imagining zero growth, I'm targeting an ARPU of $0.005 amortized over one year, BTC. You can contact me at [email protected] .
Normally I would remind people of my instance, pornlemmy.com, but in the past 3 months we've had somewhere between 250k and 300k unique visitors per month, and less than $200 in total donations. So at the moment I'm investing $200 / 3 of time and resources each month, which amounts to less than one hour of work (per month) for me. I am open to selling PornLemmy though, so if anyone wants a site with 300k uniques, ping me.
If you look close enough at this link, you'll see a Pornhub link in the bottom right corner.
Is there a reason some communities from federated instances are not available here?
Yes, they weren't in line with what I want pornlemmy to represent.
Can individual communities on another instance by blocked
Yes, but unfortunately
is it possible which communities are?
as far as I know, there is no way for the users to get a list of blocked communities.
@[email protected] hey can you try again and let us know if it works or not? Thank you.
It's my fault, fixing now. So far I've only managed to bring the whole site down for one hour, but I'm not done yet.
No, because most of the changes I've made for PornLemmy don't make sense in a non-adult Lemmy instance. If you would like to copy any features on https://lemmyf.uk (or just talk), ping me on Matrix/email and I'll be more than happy to help with patches and advice.
So, you're visiting pornlemmy.com using a browser, either on your phone or laptop, and you're not seeing redgifs previews. You've created a user - please go to https://pornlemmy.com/settings and make sure that "Auto expand images" is checked.
Are you viewing them here, on pornlemmy, or other instances?
The more I do that, the more incentive the straight white computer nerds that run this place will have to make it more fun for me to be here.
That's not how it works. We provide a tool, it's up to you the users how you use it. We don't owe you anything, you owe us for the time and work put into this site.
Why aren't you posting what you like, so that others may follow your lead? Complaining without any action doesn't usually solve anything, but if you add content you would like to see, other people who like the same kind of content may start posting their own and that's how you build a community.
Second week, first small outage
Hi peeps, if you're in Europe you might have noticed we had a small outage today. If you're in Europe, you might also have noted that it's hot outside. The PornLemmy team squeezes the servers running the site between a shit ton of other servers that do sciency stuff, but they're not critical enough to merit a nuclear fallout end of the world datacenter. Therefore, we get a regular run of the mill datacenter, which was not built with the tolerances this Cerberus heatwave is bringing down on us (and we're in the worst affected part of Europe).
So, because of the red temperature alert, hardware parts have started to degrade. We managed to do a database dump and move the whole deployment to another cluster without losing much data (about 10-15 minutes worth), but things are not looking good for the near future, as we have the red temperature alert predicted for every day this week and next week. Fun times ahead. Help us buy a desk fan?
Our apologies to anyone who was affected, and apologies in advance to anyone who might be affected in the future. We'd like to say we'll be on top of everything, but the weather is too freakish for us to actually believe it.
First week of PornLemmy: stats, facts, and ramblings
Hello again peeps, Alex here, the admin of PornLemmy. We’re celebrating one week of being online, and we’re going to share some nerd stats and fun facts with you.
When I decided to start PornLemmy, there seemed to be a void which needed to be filled: a porn Lemmy instance with a heavy bias towards vanilla content, and with very strict moderation so that it’s a safe and fun place for everyone. However, I didn’t imagine it would grow so much in so little time; thank you all, please excuse me if I don’t shake your hands – we know what you do with them.
According to Cloudflare, PornLemmy had 71.5k unique visitors in the last 7 days. You can see the growth curve at the end of this post, so far it seems pretty stable, which to me means that we’ve quickly reached most of our intended audience. There is the small dip in uniques for Saturday which puzzles me: are you watching more porn at work than at home?
Unlike LemmyNSFW, the biggest porn Lemmy instance, and unlike all the other small instances which I won’t name, PornLemmy does not require users to sign-up in order to view content. It was a strategic decision: we don’t want to force anything on you, it’s entirely your decision if you want to have a user here or not. Our expectations are that only content creators will sign-up, along a bunch of horny lemmings who want to comment how beautiful the poster’s eyes are. That is why there is a big discrepancy between visitors and registered users on PornLemmy. The good thing about this is that posts have just a few upvotes, meaning we won’t spam other non-nsfw Lemmy instances – we wish to avoid stuffing porn down user’s throats when they didn’t ask for it. The bad thing is that our visibility in the fediverse is low, but we’re totally ok with that; horny people will find their way to us organically.
When looking at time spent on the site, two very clear groups can be seen: the first group, who spends between 1 and 7 minutes on PornLemmy, and the second group who spends 15 or more minutes. It would be impolite for us to say anything about the first group, so we will address only the second one: hey ladies, how can we improve your bean flicking experience? Tell us what you’d like to see more, and what you’d like to see less. We’ve managed so far to keep degradation or humiliation content to a minimum – what else may we do to deliver you consistent happy endings?
Regarding content, so far we’ve filtered 608 communities and 2445 posts that were not appropriate for PornLemmy. Out of these, only 3 communities and 8 posts were local. We have also applied to USA’s National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, which will make flagging and removal of inappropriate content automatic, so you the visitors won’t be subjected to distressing imagery if it’s ever posted here.
We were pleasantly surprised to see that posts containing only male nudity got so many upvotes and encouraging words (unlike some otheR place). A message to all women: please comment more and tell us men that you enjoy what you’re seeing, we really need a bit of male body positivity at this moment in time, and your opinion has a lot of weight. Message to men: show your junk more, women love it.
We weren’t that pleased with the amount of LGBT content. It’s very very low. If you’re part of this group but are a bit afraid to post, please keep in mind that the PornLemmy moderation team is very strict with disparaging comments.
When looking at what devices you peeps use, 75% visit us on phones, 16% with a browser, 7% on a tablet. Apple is a very clear brand leader with 35% of visitors, while Samsung and Google branded devices have 7.5% and 5%, respectively. If you can afford Apple devices, maybe you can also afford to spend $1 per month to help PornLemmy survive? Thank you :).
As a side node, we feel the best way to enjoy PornLemmy is on a browser. If you haven’t tried it yet, please take a couple of minutes opening a new incognito tab and checking out https://pornlemmy.com. Do let us know what you think, we’re still young and need a lot of user feedback.
Regarding visitor’s origins, 79.5% come to us directly, meaning you don’t follow any links to get to PornLemmy. 10% come from https://join-lemmy.org, 4% come from https://browse.feddit.de, and 1% come from https://lemmynsfw.com. Fun fact – for every visitor that comes to PornLemmy from LemmyNSFW, we send two of our visitors from PornLemmy to LemmyNSFW. The federation seems to work well so far, content is being shared freely between instances as it was intended. We also have a surprising entry: 0.5% of our visitors come from …… drum rolls………. Reddit. Oh how the turntables
That's enough stats for now, thank you to anyone who reached the end of this message. Keep being naughty!
14k unique visitors in our first 24 hours
Hi peeps, it's been a bit over 24 hours since we went online with PornLemmy, and whew you are some horny dudettes. 14.000 unique individuals visited us, totaling 144GB of internet traffic. Not bad for a start, thank you and come again.
Also, please consider donating $1 to us - it would make a huge difference helping this Lemmy instance survive.
NSFW content is always displayed now
As per title, all content (sfw or nsfw) will always be shown, regardless if you've disabled "Show NSFW content" in your profile settings.
You can upload videos of max 25MB
PornLemmy accepts videos (and images) of up to 25MB. If you have a small clip you'd like to share, and it's over 25MB, consider lowering the quality (ie move to 720p or lower).
Donations
This site was created because a good, clean porn Lemmy instance was missing. It was configured from day one to scale and accept a large number of users and posts, with as little downtime as possible. We also made custom modifications to various components' source code in order to better fit the needs of the users. But all this costs time, hardware, services, etc. If you like what you see and would like for this instance to survive and grow into a curated safe place for everyone, please consider donating - $1 makes a world of difference if all the users do it.
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