I just want other people to post and share more stuff, yeah. I built my collection off of seeing what other people like, but the return is pretty poor right now especially when I could just go to Reddit for everything instead.

Looking at analogous subreddits for comparison, people don’t comment much other than praising works they particularly like or hornyposting about how sexy a set of tits are, so that’d be the most I’d expect here, which feels unlikely when 2-4K upvotes there nets maybe 2-3 comments.

LemmyNSFW overall, or this Ask community? I think the overall NSFW is growing, there’s a lot of stuff I don’t want to see, and a lot of ads, for lack of a better word, just people promoting their onlyfans. I don’t mind that but often wish we had a big enough userbase for the nonsexual, not commercial nudes stuff. Like in reddit there was naked progress, normal nudes, I loved those threads.

Most NSFW communities are just advertising fronts for OnlyFans, so what’s the point?

They’re almost never worth looking at.

Bring back downvotes

Dongers out to save the fediverse

Oh my lord, yes please.

After a year and then some of posting the communities do not have posting participation

I just don’t think there’s enough active userbase for that, and it really isn’t something you can fix on the fly. The ratio of Like/Upvote > Share > Comment > Post is always an issue for online social spaces, its just that a few website got big enough to make it seem like its easy to get people to contribute.

The architecture of Lemmy is also a little bothersome at times, especially when it comes to displaying media and making gallery posts.

Probably one thing I’d like for LemmyNSFW to have is a Admin owned community for people to share communities and talk about merging, managing, sharing, etc. Something like https://lemmy.world/c/newcommunities but for our side of the pond, and now just for new but also talking about present communities and what can be done for them.

Yes, more is better. I’d love to especially see more OC

Well, I block any of the pic/vid based communities because that’s just not my thing.

But the key to any activity is an active posting culture.

Porn and porn-ish communities have to have either self posters that want to be seen, or someone “feeding” external content via link or gif, same as on reddit. In a lot of cases, even there, you’d have one poster making the sub have content, often for their own use, and users were passive. Trying to “boost” activity of posting porn related content like that is kinda difficult because you have to be motivated to post, and you can’t really externally generate motivation.

Text based communities like this one, you just need to hit a degree of awareness, so that even users that don’t think of the instance as somewhere you’d go for discussion will think of specific communities and use them instead of a general purpose instance’s communities. That does take “seeding” questions for this specific community, or otherwise making posts for other types of text based nsfw content.

Now, as far as my personal wants regarding activity levels, I think the instance is doing fine on average. It’s not unusual to see a new community of image posts pop up here and there that I’ll then block. And it’s fairly common that this community has a post often enough that I think of it as being one of the more active communities on the instance. Which means I don’t have a want regarding activity.

No. But I’ve started to block that content anyway so have at it I guess.