I don't know the answer but would love to know as I have short stories and scenarios I'd like to publish.
What would your top 5 erotica subjects be?
this post was submitted on 24 Apr 2026
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sorry, not sure about an actual answer
follow me so you dont miss out, Im determined to find that instance!
Didn't know you can follow people in the fediverse. I'll try
@IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds @Elilol this is wild to me because that's literally one of the main things that federation enables 😭 haven't explored much beyond the threadiverse i assume?
I mostly use it through Jerboa app, haven't seen the follow option in the UI,
@IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds i'm actually not sure if Lemmy lets you follow users, weirdly enough (i know PieFed doesn't), but it's definitely possible to follow users from other types of fediverse software. i follow @Elilol from this Mastodon account, for example :3
PieFed actually gives you tons of options for following. I can follow users to get notifications when they post. I can subscribe to posts for when there are new replies. I can even subscribe to individual comments for when there are replies to those.
The only issue with PieFed, for now, is that you can't currently follow and then see all of the posts from a Mastodon user. Only the replies/posts to a Community that can be seen on this side of the fediverse will show up in that case.
@QuadratureSurfer oh yeah true, there is that. you just can't follow in the sense of having their posts show up in your main feed interspersed with posts from communities you're subscribed to. i'd like to see certain people's posts but i don't necessarily want a notification every time they post.
unless i just missed the option somewhere?
Ah, I understand now. Yeah, you can't follow and have it show up in the normal feed in the same way that Mastodon treats original posts/replies.
Although, it would make sense to have a followed individual's posts show up in the home feed. Right now I just treat the "Notifications" section of PieFed as its own feed. I don't actually have the notifications enabled at the OS level so I'm not getting alerts anytime there's some activity.
I don't think it allows it, I'll check later on my desktop.
But I need this conversation to stop. I feel like an old boomer asking kids to help me open my email.
Theres a canceled bell on our profiles, you uncancel it and receive EVERYTHING that person posts
Fantasy or not, I reckon incest is probably illegal (aka punished by law) in many regions, and even if one manages to stay away form the most obvious/illegal forms of incest it will still often be frown upon, hard enough, for people to not be that willing to openly publish/host it for anyone to read. At least, not without some serious safeguards, say, to prevent minors from accessing it and to prevent the most deranged type of stories to ever be published (no webmaster/host is that willing to risk getting sued for some nasty story a random weirdo decided to publish on their platform).
Imho, if you're into writing erotica your best bet is to find a community of fellow erotica writers and discuss that with them. They must certainly know where it will be ok to post and share the kind of stories you're into. And they should be able to tell you what is ok, and what is not.
Swesome answer, thanks so much.
My pleasure. I hope you will a space that suits your needs .
As a side note regarding the Fediverse/Lemmy/Piefed/etc. as a publishing space: be aware that you can create your own community (say, one dedicated to your type of erotica) but my remarks remain valid: you will need an instance (aka, the server on which lives your community) that is ok to host potentially offensive content (or worse). Or you can host your own instance (aka, the physical server on which your community lives) but then you need to be yourself, as a person, ok to face the potential legal risks of publishing offensive content (or worse).
Ignoring smut and the shitload crap that is being written just for making some money out of people feeling an irrepressible need to... scratch an itch (which is a legit business, don't get me wrong it's just not a quality product), erotica can be great literature. Sadly, a bit like poetry I'm almost tempted to say, most of the time erotica is frowned upon or ignored out of fear of being shamed for reading it. Imho, what makes the best erotica, beside the author knowing their craft, is the author willingness to outsmart the limits they've been imposed, be it by the law and/or by pubic morality and also, it is at least as important, all the limitations they imposed on themselves. The desire to play with those limits.
@Elilol you might try looking for an instance of Mastodon, Pleroma/Akkoma, Misskey/Sharkey, etc. with a high character limit for posts? @harmonycorrupted (you were the first kinkycats user who popped into my head, sorry 😆) do you think kinkycats.org would work well for this?
Thanks Allie I might try, Im still getting used to using fedi and not opening reddit xD but I do need more exposure ASAP