For those who don’t know the original reason LemmyNSFW went down:
Xaeg/Yay was the owner of LemmyNSFW, and he had access to and paid for the domain, server, and everything else related to the site. He had been AWOL for about 6 months, and suddenly in mid February of 2026, the server and the domain stopped being paid for. I had no access to the server to get the database.
Because of this, it appeared LemmyNSFW as it was, and all the content on it, had died.
So I created FediNSFW.app to be the replacement! It is a piefed instance instead of a lemmy one because if there’s one thing NSFW content benefits from it’s good moderation tools and flairs, and piefed has those things.
now, back to the new update:
How is LemmyNSFW online now?
Xaeg finally responded! he gave me access to a backup of the site and ownership of the domain!
What does this change?
tldr: LemmyNSFW is now an archive, FediNSFW.app is the new fully running instance
Fedinsfw.app will continue to run as a normal piefed instance, and lemmynsfw will be an archive for the foreseeable future. It is just too much work and cost to manage two instances and all their storage and cost right now. Additionally piefed’s advanced moderation and community options are just a much better fit for a NSFW instance like this.
Hopefully this solution feels like “the best of both worlds” so to speak: This way you can view the posts you’ve made and even crosspost old posts to fedinsfw.app if you’d like, while also benefiting from the awesome piefed features.
Edit: Holy moly, something in lemmy is running wild and eating up a ton of resources, until I diagnose it, lemmynsfw will be down
Edit 2: ok, I think it’s good now, emphasis on THINK, the status of lemmynsfw may be subject to change
that is not so good
if you are part of a social media, you can delete your content… now, LemmyNSFW pushes the content online without your control
it’s a rule-changing sequence
I’m not sure what you mean?
People who had accounts on lemmynsfw can login and delete their content if they want. The site will just not get new posts
It’s a lie, you can’t get in – none of the ones mentioned work. This website is unreachable. The DNS address for lemmynsfw.com couldn’t be found. Diagnosing the problem. DNS_PROBE_POSSIBLE
I was able to log my account in fine. If dns stuff is the issue, it should all propagate shortly.
I don’t go to this school, but I opened the site. It’s a bit slow.
changes in dns can sometimes take a while until they’re visible to everyone due to caching
“archive”
what made you think, honestly, that anything on the web was fully deletable? that’s just not how any of this works. there is almost always a backup somewhere.
I don’t know if you are currently not in your right mind, you don’t seem to have a grasp on what actually happened. Maybe give it a day and see how you feel tomorrow. Rather than continuing to post today.
I didn’t receive a single warning/notice that it was going to close
No one did… what language would you like the original post translated too? It’s written up there in english… but I appreciate that english isn’t everyone’s native tongue.