Well, maybe not even everybody here would agree if I said “Burggit needs more users” but I feel like it’s turned into kind of a ghost town. You can see right in the sidebar we’re sitting at 100 users a week. I certainly wish there were more people here. Especially if you hide NSFW, there’s only a few posts a day and almost all of them have 0-2 comments. That sucks because I think this is cool as more than just “the loli lemmy”. (Even though that’s good too).
Of course, Lemmy quickly fractured into mass defederation and basically every instance is pretty atomized now, even the “big” instances. I don’t think we get a lot of people checking out from other instances. I would bet with the way modern Google works, nobody is coming here from a google search either lol.
So, is there anything that’s fun to link to Burggit on other sites that you guys have been sharing? I sometimes link people here from Reddit if they’re looking for real incest stuff, since I always was bothered about how Reddit has an unwritten rule that it’s banned but never says so explicitly, and there’s posts at least once a week from people looking for it who often get told that if it’s not on Reddit it must not exist. More importantly, I think the same is true for some SFW topics.
Of course, the front page is full of loli and people are kinda hostile to that these days. I just wish we could get 1% of the people who used to subscribe to all the loli themed subreddits (including SFW/memes) that were banned in the unofficial big loli purge, that would be enough to make it lively here lol.
I kind of fit that. I like “teen” loli stuff, but most loli art is too young for me. Sometimes I can overlook it if it’s a particularly hot scenario though.
I’m sure a lot of people are like that. It used to be very common on every hentai site (on many it still is) and on sites like Reddit, and art sites. Some people complained, most didn’t seem to care. There seems to be have some pressure put on a lot of websites (by advertisers? payment processors?) around the same time. Maybe also when Australia declared that drawn content was CP. Reddit cracked down on the loli subreddits (including SFW), booru sites like Gelbooru and E621 made it so you have to log in to see loli content, even 4chan doesn’t allow loli on most boards now. This only happened in the west though, sites like Pixiv still have a ton.
So to a new internet user, it seems like this stuff is much more rare/forbidden, but I’m sure everyone didn’t actually change how they feel in the past 10 years. Most people are like “eh, as long as it’s drawn, whatever” and although a minority, that content remains EXTREMELY popular on the sites that have it. A lot of people won’t admit they’re into it though. In a similar vein, now it’s considered bad to admit you’re tolerant of it on websites you use at all.
I’m pretty sure the change was due to the credit card companies cracking down on it, so the payment processors had to comply. I vaguely remember there being some sort of US government program to “encourage” them to do so, but I could be wrong on that.