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
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I apologize to everyone. I disappointed you all. I haven’t been able to moderate the instance for the past year. I was only dealing with financial matters every few weeks.
Due to changes in my life, I haven’t been able to check on the instance for the last month, and during that time the server was nuked. It was an unfortunate event.
Nevertheless, I thank @lemmyposter212@fedinsfw.app for continuing it and for making the old instance available as an archive.
As someone inexperienced in this area, it was interesting and also tiring experience. Still, I’m sure I won’t get involved again :)
Hosting isn’t an easy thing! You did a lot of good work and I learned a lot from you! Thanks for all you’ve done!
Your efforts and time invested are totally appreciated. Thank you 🙏
Don’t be too hard on yourself. Life happens and stuff like this is not uncommon in smaller, self-made online communities. Thanks for all your work, I really enjoyed the old instance (and I’m looking forward to seeing the new one grow).
Thank you very much for the work you invested in lemmynsfw, it was amazing while it lasted, and we’re glad it continues here!
Imagine running the largest NSFW instance on Lemmy and not having a friend or family member know about it, and have access to maintain it in case something happens to you.
But how does one explain to their family and friends that they are admin to a NSFW instance and should something happen to them what to do with the porn instance and what priority level it is.
Yeah, they’d be like “oh haha, is the the computer where you keep your porn”, and the response would be “no, this is the computer where I keep everyone’s porn”
“Honey, you know how strongly I feel about the Fediverse and corporate free social media and FOSS, that’s the reason I have created the largest porn instance in the entire world. Not because I want to jork to it or watch it before you get home, but because of my strong values and beliefs in the Fediverse and open source software. I love you for understanding”
Actually, that’s why I created Lemmy NSFW :) There was no pornographic content at all; I had just joined from Reddit in 2023, I was quite enthusiastic, and that’s how it was created.
Then I learned that you needed to be sufficiently engaged to moderate a porn site, and that was the beginning of my decline.
I’m curious how many people IRL you told about your instance?
It’s a shame when you think about it, hard to put on a resume in such a way that captures the true scope of it.
Thanks for getting it back up lemmyposter. Although kind of abrupt, this new platform is a lot better. I appreciate having the chance to see what was there before
It’s probably going to get slammed the whole time it’s up though
no, something was wrong, in fact I have a hanging docker container that will not delete, start, kill, anything, I have never had this issue
Is it just me or are there a lot of broken images?
I will keep working on it to see if I can fine tune the limitations I put on it so that images will load more reliably though
edit: I made some tweaks to everything and I think it’s working and loading better now! Let me know if you have more issues
Yeah, seems a lot better now. Thanks!
Yeah it’s performance is limited so it might have some slow and failed loads, if I didn’t do that it literally at all the server resources. Idk why but piefed is much more lightweight.
It’s also not on the cloud flair “premium” tier, so the hosting is a little bit slower too. I just couldn’t cover that added cost right now.
It is an archive though, it’s available, not necessarily fast. The good news is if you access those pages from other instances they should load faster.
this also means settings exports (with subscriptions) can be done, as well as notes in profiles about new accounts for those who want that. the settings exports can be imported in piefed as well.
yes that too!
There has to be a way to import all the posts to fedinsfw and then redirect lemmynsfw links to these imported posts.
My ocd doesn’t like having to run both servers. 😬
I don’t love it either, and maybe one day we’ll sunset lemmynsfw, but I want to have it up so people can download photos they lost and copy their subscriptions and everything. But treat fedinsfw as the main server, lemmynsfw is an archive.
This is messed up man. He made an archive with all my activity on another site, without permission, without asking, we were never warned they were going to close… and look now. He makes an archive. It’s a lie, I can’t log in:
"FediNSFW
No account exists with that username."
you have no clue what you’re talking about. the old instance lemmynsfw.com is just essentially being turned read only. that’s it. if you haven’t had an account there it doesn’t even affect you.
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.
