Hi all! Mikey here, one of your fearless admins. We’ve had so many new users lately that I wanted to bid you all welcome! Have a look around. You’ll need an account to see the nsfw content, which is most of it. Feel free to sign up for one – we rarely go more than a few hours, maybe a day at most, without zeroing the application queue.

We like new people and we strongly encourage to you participate, not just lurk! But before you do, please check the rules in the right-hand sidebar of the main page (or here) and also give the ol’ FAQ a quick clickeroonie: https://docs.lemmynsfw.com/docs/faq/.

Our purpose is to be a safe, friendly place for NSFW “research” on the Fediverse . I know a lot of you are coming over from reddit and so I would like to stress that despite superficial similarities, we are not reddit and we don’t want to be reddit. The vibe around here is different and some things that were common over there are not acceptable around here. Please make note of our content restrictions. We are especially picky about respect and consent, and we take our sourcing policy seriously.

Things are still pretty new around here and there are a lot of rough edges, so we hope you’ll try to bear with us. Lemmy isn’t fully featured yet, so running a Lemmy instance, let alone an NSFW instance, is kind of like trying to build a plane while it’s already in the air.

If you have any new user questions you can comment here, post in c/asklemmynsfw, or if you use matrix, there’s a public operations page: https://matrix.to/#/#lemmynsfw:matrix.org (what Lemmy is to Reddit and Mastodon is to Twitter, matrix is to Slack or Discord). You can also message me or another admin, but matrix will probably get you a faster reply.

Thanks everyone! Welcome once again, and I hope to see you around.