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NOTE: This community has moved over to !abdl@lemmynsfw.com !!!

Please join us over there, as this community is now going to be locked and locally-viewable only!

(Eventually the plan is to delete this community entirely, so it has now been marked as "deprecated"!)

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State of the Fediverse ABDL communities! (January 2026) (lemmynsfw.com)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by fuwa@lemmynsfw.com to c/ab_dl@lemmynsfw.com
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This community, !ab_dl@lemmynsfw.com ...

  • So we've got this community some moderation now. But just relying on one person, me, creates a single point of failure in the future that would be nice to avoid by bringing on one or two more trusted and active moderators moderators.
  • I hate that we have an underscore in our community name. I would personally prefer for it to be "abdl" instead of "ab_dl", but the Lemmy software seems to consider those to be the same thing, making it impossible for us to create or migrate to a new name. It may be possible to have the community renamed with admin intervention, but maybe not, I don't know.
  • We have some rules that I made up off the top of my head. If there are any issues with them or if people would like to suggest changes, I'm very open to suggestions. But for now, I think they seem good.
  • In order to turn this place into a real community we really need people to be more active with posts, links, comments, and discussions. (That's where you all come in! Don't be shy! Whether it's random thoughts, original content or sourced reposts from elsewhere on the internet, let's get populate this place!)

Other Fediverse communities...

  • Unfortunately there are still a lot of "dead" ABDL communities on the various big Lemmy servers that were made in the wake of the last big Reddit drama exodus. Probably with the best of intentions, @ABDL_Network@lemmynsfw.com created a lot of Reddit clone communities here on LemmyNSFW and then went MIA, leaving a lot of unmoderated communities. Similarly, there is also !abdl@lemmy.world over on Lemmy.world that was created and then left unmoderated. It would be nice to eventually revive and restore some of these communities to a more healthy, moderated state. But we probably need a couple of active, long-term Fediverse users to do it.
  • I'm aware of the Mastodon server abdl.link too. This is kind of a different thing, but it's got a couple hundred users and seems to have some ongoing activity, so people may be interested in checking that out at some point.
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[โ€“] BastyTheKitty@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's really nice to see someone take an interest in the community and kitty greatly appreciates you being willing to moderate! She does hope we can see some activity here and grow more.

Kitty has been considering for some time posting about her sessions and being more active, but it's sometimes very difficult. Seeing active moderation and engagement has helped her feel a little more confident in posting.

[โ€“] fuwa@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 7 months ago

Thanks for stopping by to make a comment, Kitty. Nice to meet you. :)

Honestly, the ABDL scene over on Reddit has been basically the only thing keeping me going back there! For many reasons, I would much prefer to use and grow the Fediverse, and I think right now the ABDL community relies way too much on Reddit, so I'd like to do what I can to make this place as good as (if not better than) the Reddit communities.

There's move work to be done though!

Please also go subscribe to the community over on !abdl@lemmynsfw.com, without the underscore, which the admins have also put me in control of for now. That'll probably be where we build the community here, because the underscore is annoying!