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 :)
Thank you very much for the work you invested in lemmynsfw, it was amazing while it lasted, and we’re glad it continues here!
You didn’t disappoint, we thank you so much for everything and I hope your doing ok now
Your efforts and time invested are totally appreciated. Thank you 🙏
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).
No worries. I think we’re all glad that you’re alive and well, frankly! 😂
While the transition could have gone smoother, I think it’s all part of the growing pains of the fediverse: figuring out how to make these communities robust and sustainable, removing hard dependencies load-bearing members and single points of failure, knowing how to keep communities together when stuff goes wrong, etc.
Don’t feel bad! You kept a good instance going for a long time. It’s a lot of work, and we appreciate it.
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!
There has to be a way to import all the posts to fedinsfw and then redirect lemmynsfw links to these imported posts.
My ocd doesn’t like having to run both servers. 😬
I don’t love it either, and maybe one day we’ll sunset lemmynsfw, but I want to have it up so people can download photos they lost and copy their subscriptions and everything. But treat fedinsfw as the main server, lemmynsfw is an archive.
Can piefed’s community import tool be used?
What is this that you speak of
When lemm.ee went down, rimu revealed a community import tool. It allows communities to be moved onto piefed instances.
this also means settings exports (with subscriptions) can be done, as well as notes in profiles about new accounts for those who want that. the settings exports can be imported in piefed as well.
yes that too!
Is it just me or are there a lot of broken images?
Yeah it’s performance is limited so it might have some slow and failed loads, if I didn’t do that it literally at all the server resources. Idk why but piefed is much more lightweight.
It’s also not on the cloud flair “premium” tier, so the hosting is a little bit slower too. I just couldn’t cover that added cost right now.
It is an archive though, it’s available, not necessarily fast. The good news is if you access those pages from other instances they should load faster.
I will keep working on it to see if I can fine tune the limitations I put on it so that images will load more reliably though
edit: I made some tweaks to everything and I think it’s working and loading better now! Let me know if you have more issues
