Hello, Unfortunately I am not able to take care of Yiffit as it deserves. Unfortunately, having been blocked by lemmy.ml, Yiffit is not a good instance to explore the lemmyverse because it is restricted. At the same time, I feel like there’s countles off other sites where Yiff can be found in a better way.
I have closed registrations for the time being as I gather feedback and collect my thoughts.
Thank you and apologies.
I don’t know what it takes to run an instance, but time is a finite resource, and can understand if life takes you to other places and a free website for others falls behind. I can say, that yiffit always seems to be working and to me that is #1. Please don’t take any of my comments or posts about function to mean you aren’t doing enough or there is something more you could do. Lemmy itself still has a 0.x release and lots of bugs/missing features in many aspects.
We not might be a big group here, but it seems to be a pretty good one. I for one don’t miss .ml, and never got the sense they (the developers) were a particularly welcoming bunch. I think even pawb runs off their own fork in case they (.ml) let their views into the code itself. In general blocking from other instances is just something that comes with federation, you will never see everything and the whims of a single admin could cut off large chunks.
I know nothing about sysadmin or moderation, but I’m confident there are others here who do and would help if asked.
Thank you for running yiffit. I have enjoyed my time here, and if it sticks around, I will continue to be here.