I’ve been dabbling in ASSTR, though haven’t found anything I’ve really liked yet. Mostly what I’m finding are stories that are good for a bit, and then veer into “not my fetish” territory. It’s an enormous site though, so I’m sure I’ll find something I’ll like eventually.

Looks good now. :)

Megumin is gone now, and the list does look shorter. Still have a bunch of small instances though. Random sampling:

• https://lemmy.kweb.ovh/
• https://lemmy.gar.dev/
• https://lemmy.flight-crew.org/
• https://hq.unit520.wtf/
• https://fstab.sh/
• https://lemmy.kwain.net/

Also, on Firefox with a narrower window (innerWidth of 1200ish), the leftmost and rightmost columns are cut off around their halfway points. I can horizontal scroll to see the full rightmost column, but not the leftmost. Any way that you could make the cards flow to naturally fit the browser window, instead of being in a hard grid? A similar thing happens on Firefox mobile, but with only 2 columns instead of 5.

Seems like it’s still including the small instances? For example, lemmy.megumin.org is on there, even though it only has 6 users.

The anti-harassment policy probably helps there. Also, exploding-heads having defederated us. The loli protects, apparently.

Might be better not to set that particular train in motion.

Is this why .moe is so cute and funny?

F/d is my favorite, though any older male/younger female pairing is good too. F/d just feels the most taboo to me.

Fair. “More realistic”, then.

My fediverse addiction is far worse than my reddit addiction ever was

From my very brief look at this one and my only passing familiarity with stonetoss, they seem fairly similar

Just took a look at the guy’s other comics, out of curiosity. Pretty fuckin yikes. Holocaust denial and the like.

I think it makes sense to have a place with just verified stuff, even if it’s low-activity. You could always create a separate community (incest_porn?) for the fake stuff.

😭

Wait, so we’ve been furries this whole time?

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!

heh

The only bad thing I noticed didn’t have to do with open registration. It was a bot commenter from a federated instance.

Is registration at least protected by CAPTCHA? Or is it completely open?

A suggested standard wouldn’t be a bad idea, as long as we don’t expect everyone to actually follow it. In addition to different communities having different requirements, mods of new communities are going to be hesitant to strictly enforce tagging while they’re starved for content. I tend to like having guidelines to follow though.

So basically a middleman instance with access to both? I like that idea a bit.

That was the original idea, a SFW burggit.social that federates with burggit.moe. Now I’m more thinking that the threadiverse in general will have its growth stunted if puritans remain in control. The internet is for porn, after all. Eventually most instances should be ones with well-defined, liberal federation policies, while those with more restrictive or arbitrary federation will be relegated to the sidelines. One such instance is needed to get this process started though, and the sooner the better.

I can already see the posts "X is federated with Y! Defederate against them too or you we’ll say you support child rape!’

Eh, they can try, but I don’t think they’ll get much traction. There haven’t been any calls to defederate fmhy or vlemmy AFAIK. Users on the other current big instances aren’t going to see any burggit content anyway, so they don’t need to care. Admins of those instances likewise don’t need to care, as the content isn’t touching their servers and causing possible jurisdictional legal issues for them. If you take those two cards away from the puritans, they lose a lot of power.