Because of the nature of federation posts and comments on LemmyNSFW communities will live on basically forever. However the photos and videos will likely be lost. Some were links to external media and will stick around, some may be cached. But most photos and videos that were uploaded directly to the instance will break when the server fully goes down.

For example: [NSFW, OBVIOUSLY] !boobs@lemmynsfw.com - that link should load fine on your instance. It should look functional just with no new posts. (Note: it’s actually possible to post and comment in these communities still, but only people in your instance will see it)

The images are served from links like these: (mild NSFW) https://lemmynsfw.com/pictrs/image/d50379d3-7d64-440c-bcf6-13dbf2b81c1b.webp?format=webp

The fact that the images still load is a somewhat hopeful sign. The server is still running, Lemmy just crashed. There’s still time for the head admin to come back, the data still exists. This seems unlikely though as the other admin says they haven’t heard from them since October.

So there’s a small window to archive this stuff, if you’re interested. Between now and whenever the media server crashes or gets shut off for non-payment.

  • Zen_Shinobi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    3 months ago

    Really sucks. It’s hard to find a place other than here or Reddit that doesn’t require a payment or ID verification to post amateur media

    • x0x7@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      I mean I could plug my shit. https://goatmatrix.net/

      It’s not super active on the nsfw front but I’m open to it. You’ve just got to hit “hidden from front” on nsfw content.
      Any sub exists. Just submit to any topic.

      Hopefully that plug isn’t unwelcome, but you really can use it.

  • Quacksalber@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    5·
    3 months ago

    If anything, getting the logs from that server would be interesting, to see if Lemmy’s long-term stability can be improved.

  • Warl0k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
    41·
    3 months ago

    If I remember right the images are all hosted on catbox not on lemmynsfw itself. I’m not sure why they’re still accessible, I was never told how the backend was set up beyond that, but it does mean that the images are only available until catbox times them out.

  • Darkassassin07@lemmy.caEnglish
    65·
    3 months ago

    I still have hundreds of communities from lemmynsfw in my blocklist from before instance based blocking was implemented. Pretty sure lemmynsfw is 95% responsible for that feature needing to be implemented.

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        1·
        3 months ago

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