You ask good questions, but I’m afraid they’re very hard to answer no matter what the admins themselves believe to be morally correct.

Most of what you refer to is essentially a copyright issue. Unless otherwise specified by the copyright holders/creators of a piece of work, you’re not allowed to repost it. In most jurisdictions this is very straight forward. The problem is enforcement, obviously: how are you going to verify that every OP has the right to share the material they’re sharing? Excluding OC, you’ll find they probably don’t. Really determining this is very time consuming at best and impossible at worst.

So I don’t think it would make sense to have a strict “you can only post OC or content you have the rights to” because it’s just not compatible with a platform like Lemmy (or Reddit, for that matter). And if enforcement is more or less of the table, you might as well not have such an explicit rule and only respond to complaints 🤷

This might just be me, but does anyone else have the issue that videos can’t be opened within the lemmy interface anymore? When I click on a video hosted on files.catbox.moe, it just doesn’t expand anymore. It did that yesterday…

Also, I think I saw on another instance that redgifs Videos could be expanded in the interface as well. Was that added in a newer version? If so, it would be really cool if this instance could update.

Hetzner (server provider/hoster, not ISP) has strict no-porn rules. So even if you run the most vanilla stuff you can get booted from their service.

gonewildaudio was a life-changing discovery.

These are the two things I have gripes with.

• Requiring an active, trusted source for everything is ridiculously strict. I think this would be the rule to kill most of the instance instantly.
• Gov ID checking in this unprofessional setting is… bad. I wouldn’t even call it stupid or naïve anymore, I would consider that actively malicious. Nobody should ever comply with a request to send their ID in this setting. At least I understand that they want some form of verification, but the way I see it there is not a proper way to do it as just a handful of hobbyists running a non-commercial site.

The restrictions on types of content… I’m ok with, and I think this is an OK thing to do as any instance. If that makes this place too vanilla or too hostile towards r34 or whatever, then that stuff can just go somewhere else.

I’ll wait and see what will happen though.

Are you saying these are the updated rules that they are planning to publish? Is this verbatim or are you paraphrasing/interpreting?

A lot of the premium VR stuff is being uploaded (full length) to https://eporner.com, usually in pretty good quality (and with a player that doesn’t suck complete ass). That’s where I’ve found the most.