Back when I was on Reddit, I was of course subscribed to a lot of the porn subs, but what really made the experience special for me were all the text-based NSFW communities — the R4Rs, the RAOs, the gonewildstories/slutty confessions/etc.
There seem to be a fair number of people who have come over to Lemmy from Reddit but these sorts of communities just haven’t taken off. This instance has dirty chat and r4r communities but they’re sparsely populated, and the latest content is 3 or 4 months old. The main source of gonewildstories is the bot that reposts from Reddit.
Do people here just not like to engage with other users over text like this? Or is there a secret trove of filthy communities that I just don’t know about? More and more I’m starting to regret nuking my porn Reddit account and wondering about going back.
Text based communities require a large population to really work. R4R style communities will be limited by the regional limitations of a smaller community. If you’re looking to meet up(or even for just chatting), fewer people means less of a chance of finding a compatible person in terms of turn ons/fetish alignment who is also in your geographic area.
Aside from the meetup communities, the story oriented communities require a lot of effort. It takes time and effort to write a story that doesn’t sound like terrible fanfic and chances are high you’ll put that effort in for it to get lost in the void. Most people probably won’t read it, let alone interact. Finding the people who will go that far is again just a factor of how large the population is because it’s a less popular form of media.