For those who don’t know the original reason LemmyNSFW went down:
Xaeg/Yay was the owner of LemmyNSFW, and he had access to and paid for the domain, server, and everything else related to the site. He had been AWOL for about 6 months, and suddenly in mid February of 2026, the server and the domain stopped being paid for. I had no access to the server to get the database.
Because of this, it appeared LemmyNSFW as it was, and all the content on it, had died.
So I created FediNSFW.app to be the replacement! It is a piefed instance instead of a lemmy one because if there’s one thing NSFW content benefits from it’s good moderation tools and flairs, and piefed has those things.
more info here
now, back to the new update:
How is LemmyNSFW online now?
Xaeg finally responded! he gave me access to a backup of the site and ownership of the domain!
What does this change?
tldr: LemmyNSFW is now an archive, FediNSFW.app is the new fully running instance
Fedinsfw.app will continue to run as a normal piefed instance, and lemmynsfw will be an archive for the foreseeable future. It is just too much work and cost to manage two instances and all their storage and cost right now. Additionally piefed’s advanced moderation and community options are just a much better fit for a NSFW instance like this.
Hopefully this solution feels like “the best of both worlds” so to speak: This way you can view the posts you’ve made and even crosspost old posts to fedinsfw.app if you’d like, while also benefiting from the awesome piefed features.
Edit: Holy moly, something in lemmy is running wild and eating up a ton of resources, until I diagnose it, lemmynsfw will be down
Edit 2: ok, I think it’s good now, emphasis on THINK, the status of lemmynsfw may be subject to change
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I apologize to everyone. I disappointed you all. I haven’t been able to moderate the instance for the past year. I was only dealing with financial matters every few weeks.
Due to changes in my life, I haven’t been able to check on the instance for the last month, and during that time the server was nuked. It was an unfortunate event.
Nevertheless, I thank @lemmyposter212@fedinsfw.app for continuing it and for making the old instance available as an archive.
As someone inexperienced in this area, it was interesting and also tiring experience. Still, I’m sure I won’t get involved again :)
Your efforts and time invested are totally appreciated. Thank you 🙏
Hosting isn’t an easy thing! You did a lot of good work and I learned a lot from you! Thanks for all you’ve done!
You didn’t disappoint me, you provided a good service to me for a long time without pay. Thank you!
Thank you very much for the work you invested in lemmynsfw, it was amazing while it lasted, and we’re glad it continues here!
Don’t be too hard on yourself. Life happens and stuff like this is not uncommon in smaller, self-made online communities. Thanks for all your work, I really enjoyed the old instance (and I’m looking forward to seeing the new one grow).
Imagine running the largest NSFW instance on Lemmy and not having a friend or family member know about it, and have access to maintain it in case something happens to you.
But how does one explain to their family and friends that they are admin to a NSFW instance and should something happen to them what to do with the porn instance and what priority level it is.
Yeah, they’d be like “oh haha, is the the computer where you keep your porn”, and the response would be “no, this is the computer where I keep everyone’s porn”
OUR porn
Not only that, but it switches the old argument. Instead of “delete my porn if I die suddenly” it’s “I entrust this instance to your care from now forward”
“Honey, you know how strongly I feel about the Fediverse and corporate free social media and FOSS, that’s the reason I have created the largest porn instance in the entire world. Not because I want to jork to it or watch it before you get home, but because of my strong values and beliefs in the Fediverse and open source software. I love you for understanding”
