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Welcome! This pinned post will have everything you need to get started as well as useful information about yiffit.net for fellow instance administrators.
First: please log-in on Yiffit.net or subscribe via a NSFW-enabled instance to be able to see all content. This link will give you information on how to be able to view NSFW posts.
Instance overview
With reddit banning NSFW subs via their API and possibly altogether, Yiffit aims to be a free and open alternative dedicated to sharing furry artwork, always with attribution.
Content: SFW & NSFW, leaning towards the latter
Federation: Enabled
Community creation: Enabled via request. Users can create and moderate their own communities!
Registrations: open, with manual approval to prevent abuse
Notable rules:
- No underage characters.
- All NSFW content must be appropriately flagged.
- All posts must have attribution and the DNP list must be respected.
- Sharing content that is behind a pay wall (piracy) is strictly forbidden.
- Real NSFW photos and videos are only allowed if they are related to the submitter (eg. a selfie). This is to prevent distribution of sensitive photos without permission of the people depicted in them.
- Posting via bots is allowed as long as long as it's within the established frequency limits.
While unusual if you're not familiar with furry nsfw artwork, this instance's content is safe and legal to federate with.
DNP, Takedown requests or inquiries can be sent to @Wander@yiffit.net (Fediverse) or wanderpackmatesorg (email).
If you're a moderator of a furry or yiff subreddit and would like to jump on board of the moderation team at Yiffit, please let us know!
Notable communities
Please note that you'll need to be logged in to this instance or any other federated instance which allows NSFW in order to view most of these communities. Lemmy.ml does currently NOT allow you to access adult content from their instance.
Local communities
!meta@yiffit.net - Discussion about this instance
!furry@yiffit.net - SFW furry artwork
!chat@yiffit.net - Casual offtopic posts / chatting
!memes@yiffit.net - Furry memes
!yiff@yiffit.net ^NSFW^ - General Yiff / Furry porn community (all orientations)
!gfur@yiffit.net ^NSFW^ - Male solo or Male/Male anthro
!lfur@yiffit.net ^NSFW^ - Female solo or Female/Female anthro
!bdsm@yiffit.net ^NSFW^ - Bondage & domination / submission yiff
!stories@yiffit.net ^NSFW^ - Written stories
!feralyiff@yiffit.net ^NSFW^ - Yiff images containing at least one feral / non-anthro character
!paws@yiffit.net ^NSFW^ - Paws, of course!
!petplayyiff@yiffit.net ^NSFW^ - Petplay Yiff
!vore@yiffit.net ^NSFW^ - Vore Yiff
!nudes@yiffit.net ^NSFW^ - Gone Wild / Selfie nudes
!petplay@yiffit.net ^NSFW^ - IRL Petplay discussion
!anthroids@yiffit.net ^NSFW^ - Anthro Androids / Synthetic furries
!andromorph@yiffit.net ^NSFW^ - Anthro males with vaginas (aka c-boys)
!ancientyiff@yiffit.net ^NSFW^ - Ancient Yiff (2010 and earlier)
!yiff_irl@yiffit.net ^NSFW^ - Yiff IRL memes
!femyiff@yiffit.net ^NSFW^ Femboy Yiff
!shinyyiff@yiffit.net ^NSFW^ Rubber, latex or similar
At this point in time not all communities have content, since Yiffit was created very recently.
Remote communities
These are run by pawb.social, a fellow furry instance. An account on Yiffit will allow you to subscribe to Pawb communities and viceversa. If you've got a local account, you can follow the link below to simply click and subscribe.
!tech@pawb.social - Furry technologists
!transfurs@pawb.social - Transfurs
!musicians@pawb.social - Furry musicians
!virtualreality@pawb.social - Virtual Reality
!furry@pawb.social - Furry
!transformation@pawb.social ^NSFW^ - Transformation
Instance rules
- You need to be +18 years old to sign up, view content from or send messages to this instance.
- All submissions that are not original content must include attribution in the title.
- All submissions that are not original content should include a link to the artist's gallery or profile. Please note that this should be a page managed by the artist, not a link to e621. Fortunately you'll find link to valid sources on e621 itself.
- Links to the artist's gallery or profile should not link to pages that are known to be problematic or be dedicated to hosting content featuring underage characters in a NSFW situation.
- Submissions from artists in the DNP list are not allowed (see list below).
- NSFW artwork featuring underage characters is not allowed.
- AI created images are currently not allowed. Once the instance grows large enough we'll ask for user feedback on how to approach this matter and hear out our user's opinions.
- IRL NSFW content is allowed only if:
- It is related to you in some way (a photo of yourself, a photo you took, etc...)
- You have permission to share the photo
- Every third party in the photo is either blurred out, non-identifiable or you have their permission to publicly share the photo with their faces visible.
- Do not post anything that was published behind a paywall and which was not publicly shared by the artist.
- If you are an artist, you can advertise yourself in the !commissions@yiffit.net community. There you are free to post links to your Patreon or similar and share links to e-commerce platforms or pricing pages.
- More extreme content should be posted under its own community instead of using the general communities.
- Content which could be seen as disturbing or potentially illegal by remote instance admins (especially non-furries) is temporarily banned until we establish a proper moderation workflow with remote instances and they get to know us better. This includes but is not limited to: gore, scat, hard vore, feral on human, hyper-realistic feral, images in which characters could be mistaken as underage, etc.
- No discussion of anything potentially illegal or which could get the instance in trouble. If in doubt message @Wander@yiffit.net.
- No soliciting, advertising or dog-whistling regarding prohibited or illegal content.
- No toxicity, no hate speech, no harassment, no brigading, no kinkshaming, no bigotry, etc...
- No discussion of politics in local-instance posts and comments. There's other instances better suited for that. Feel free to use this instance's account to engage in remote content involving politics as long as it doesn't fall into the restrictions of rule #7.
- If you believe that any content violates the rules, please file a report.
- Use the !meta@yiffit.net to discuss ideas and improvement suggestions.
DNP List
The following artists have expressed their desire to not have their artwork shared even with attribution. Please respect their wishes:
- It is a safe assumption that anyone not wanting their artwork shared on e621 wouldn't want to have it shared on here. Please follow e621's DNP list as a baseline
- Please also make sure you check e621's conditional DNP list.
- (There are no more entries due to Yiffit.net being very new)
FAQ
Q: Where does the name "Yiffit" come from?
A: It's a wordplay on a) reddit, which will ban access to NSFW subs via third party apps soon, as well as b) "Yiff it (fuck it), we'll run our own community with trading card games and femboy foxes"
Q: Who or what is the mascot?
A: It's a Hyena, due to "Yeen" and "Yiffit" starting with the same language. They have no name yet! Suggestions are more than welcome!
Q: Can I create a community for a specific type of content?
A: Yes, and you'll be able to moderate it according to your rules as long as it doesn't violate the overarching instance-wide rules. Also, you will need an account on Yiffit.net to be able to create a new community.
Q: Can I create SFW communities as well?
A: Yes, your success my vary since we're not a generalist furry instance but you are free to create SFW communities about any topic as long as it follows the overarching instance-wide rules.
Q: I don't have an account on Yiffit and I'm not fit for moderating a community, but can I still suggest a community so that you can create it?
A: Yes, if you create a post at !meta@yiffit.net, you can request to the staff the creation for a new community you'd like to see.
Q: I'm an artist, can I advertise my commissions on here?
A: Yes! Please send me a message at @wander@yiffit.net and I'll create a community for commission adverts!
Q: Can I create a bot that posts automatically?
A: Yes, but it should be limited to one submission every two hours per community and it needs to include attribution at least in the title. We might increase or decrease the bot posting frequency depending on how it goes.
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Scroll down to see the original post Alright, I'll consider the maintenance complete. Here are the updates:
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Lemmy backend has been upgraded to version 0.17.4 which is the latest available. This added some database optimizations, applied some security patches and potentially fixed some bugs although the lemmy devs have very vague release notes for this version and mention that more information will be given in the next version.
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I have also hooked up the server's backups to cloud storage. This should have no visible impact but it gives us an extra redundancy layer in case a backup needs to be used. Now that the instance is growing this is a must.
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Finally there's one issue which I wanted to do today but had to postpone: media storage.
Yesterday the instance crashed because we filled up the virtual machine's hard drive completely. This should not have happened so early. For some reason we've been caching a lot of media of external instances. This could be a bug in the way lemmy handles media. Unfortunately this is pretty much "beta software" and we have to roll with the punches.
My intention was to hook up the server to object storage for media files where we'd have plenty of space, but there's currently two ways of doing it: a good way and and a proper way. The proper way requires upgrading the pict-rs component of lemmy to the latest version... but a) it's not a final version, but a release candidate. b) I have doubts on how this will impact the lemmy upgrade process since it is pretty much automated and I'm worried there might be some sort of conflict or issue for manually upgrading one of the components.
For now it might be best to wait a little bit more until I have more information. I doubled the hard drive and it should last us for some time. Rest assured that this has nothing to do with the images that we upload in our communities, but with caching remote media which should not be cached.
Anyways, this concludes today's maintenance. I do have some pending updates about moderation, personal communities, and plans for the future, but it'll have to wait until tomorrow. I will give you a quick heads up in bullet point format:
- I'm at the point where I'll open up applications for moderators. Stay tuned.
- Please don't use NSFW content for community icons or banners. No one has done so, but I remembered that I need to put this in the rules. This is because they appear as profile icons and profile banner on other clients such as Mastodon and are visible to everyone.
- When I said that I want Yiffit to become a community space, I meant it. !malekart@yiffit.net is the first "personal community" and this is perfectly fine. I'll soon give more details about how this fits into the larger vision as well as the challenges this presents. I want to give you, the users, the tools to carve out your own space.
Most importantly, please tag NSFW very liberally. We do this as a courtesy to remote users from different parts of the world and cultures. Since everyone on yiffit has access to this content and is over 18, it's not meant to be a filter to keep minors away from sensitive images, but more as a respectful gesture for other users who may not share our values. I'll share more info about it tomorrow. If you have any concerns, please send me a DM.
Please note this is not a restriction since every yiffit user or remote user interested in yiffit should already have an account capable of viewing NSFW tagged content. This is just a measure to get highly sensitive remote users off our backs :P.
There's a point to be made about us having the moral high ground, but if you'll post some sort of cropped yiff, pin-up, sensual, etc... image, even if it should be safe, it's probably best to tag it as NSFW. And don't worry too much if you forget.
Example:
spoiler: potentially nsfw. These are tagged "safe" on e6 but it'd be best if we tag them as nsfw
But as I said, more info about all this tomorrow!
PS: I have been reading all your comments and I am humbled by the amount of support I've been receiving. Actually they were popping up on screen as notifications while doing maintenance work. It felt like one of those anime scenes where you've got friends and family shouting messages of hope and determination ^///^. Thank you everyone!
Original post First of all we'll be upgrading to the new version of lemmy (v.17.4) which does not have major changes but some database optimizations and might change some bugs.
As far as I know its the next one which will have much expected bug fixes, but we might be surprised with some improvements in this one as well. In any case this update needs to be done to prepare for the next.
Furthermore I will also do some server maintenance in ensuring that the instance is more robust and capable of handling our growth. I'll be able to give more details about our current setup and technical details once the upgrade concluded.
I hope to keep the downtime to a minimum. It could be less than 5 minutes for each, but could also be around 30min in a bad-case scenario. (Worst case if is something goes wrong and I need to restore a backup, but that is unlikely to happen).
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Sometimes I'll open many tabs in the background when scrolling and not view them right away, and later when I go to look at them the contents of many of the tabs will have been replaced by a particular unrelated post, usually the same post.
In this instance the post that should be displayed here titled "What value did you get from Reddit that you hope to realize or expand upon here?"
Of course being displayed instead is "Are there any advanced searching guides or searching in general ?"
This time I had four pages open that this happened too:
https://yiffit.net/post/19069?scrollToComments=true
https://yiffit.net/post/18574?scrollToComments=true
https://yiffit.net/post/22377?scrollToComments=true
https://yiffit.net/post/22583?scrollToComments=true
The post that ended up replacing all of them was this one:
https://yiffit.net/post/23745?scrollToComments=true
One thing they all have in common they all seem to originate from Lemmy.world@lemmy.world so I assume that probably has some bearing.
Has anyone else seen this? I'm running a fairly customized version of LibreWolf (a firefox fork) version 110.0 so it could be something I've caused but I though I'd ask in case it's an actual bug.
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