I can't find any NSFW Mastodon instances

Max_P , 2 hours ago

Porn is often really high traffic, which is expensive to run. But a lot of people are weirdos too and tend to push it to the border of legality, which can be challenging for admins if your users keep posting lolis even if it’s not allowed. And they’ll scream at you “it’s not technically illegal”.

The other thing people do a lot with porn is post stuff from sketchy sources or repost paid content for free stealing from OnlyFans pages and the big porn studios. And lately, AI generated porn of non-consenting celebrities. And of course now the increasing pressure to make sure to keep minors out or heaven forbid they’re shown trans porn.

It’s expensive to store all that porn, it’s insanely expensive to distribute it, you need lawyers on standby for the firehose of DMCA reports, you need a solid team of moderators scrubbing the site as fast as possible for CSAM, or run AI tools that needs a lot of fast hardware to run at any decent speed (you need to analyze every frame of a video, for example).

It’s just expensive as fuck overall and that’s why a lot of the porn sites have the sketchiest ads ever, and that’s because you can’t run regular ads as most advertisers don’t want to be shown next to questionable content.

On the fediverse you have the added challenge that ideally, you scrub things before they get federated due to federation bugs. Or you risk being defederated which you probably will anyway as most admins just don’t want to deal with it.

rglullis , 3 hours ago

i need free ones

Stop it! Get some Help!

sabreW4K3 , 4 hours ago

That’s a Nostr relay, nothing to do with the Fediverse.

astro_ray , 4 hours ago

Are these relays similar to fediverse instances?

sabreW4K3 , 3 hours ago

Yup. Pretty much the same thing but on a different network.

skullgiver , 4 hours ago

There are a few, but they’re usually defederated. Lots of weird porn on the remaining ones that isn’t acceptable even with the tags and auto blurring enabled.

Hosting images and video is really expensive. That’s why large Lemmy instances often lower the file size limit for media uploaded to them. Combine that with the moderation pressure NSFW content requires, and you’re left with very few options.

If you’re willing to do the moderation and think you can keep abuse to a minimum, you’re free to set one up yourself. You can learn to set up a server or rent server space with various companies dedicated to Mastodon. Do make sure you read up on laws regarding child abuse material, though, and make sure you know what IP ranges to ban if you live in a country with laws regarding porn access or are within legal reach of one (China, the UK, the USA). Also make sure to be ready to moderate kinky shit people will upload (including, but not limited to, rape role play, stuff involving various types of bodily fluids, gore, stuff involving real or imaginary animals) and make sure you have a list of what you do and don’t allow so you can block and ban without hesitation.

I wouldn’t want to run a server like that. The folks are lemmynsfw seem to be willing, so maybe take a peek at the rules and moderation style there if you’re planning on hosting something like that.

hperrin , 5 hours ago

Run your own.

scrubbles , 5 hours ago

Let’s see if we can put the context clues together.

All of the free ones were shut down. Only the paid one survived.

Well, I can only assume, but since fediverse services are hosted by real humans and not corporations, I’m going to go out on a limb and say they couldn’t afford to stay afloat.

Another alternative is that requiring payment is a simple way to ensure that the people using your service are also 18+, since it requires a sign in form, acknowledgement, and then credit card. That helps when the feds come knocking on your door asking why you’re letting minors into your service.

wesker , 5 hours ago

i need …

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