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So just chat? But like, NSFW chat? Pretty curious...
Bet it's a bit more active and interactive than Lemmy NSFW
Well since most current IRC networks either don't allow NSFW or are too chaotic for it, I just decided to make an open source one where people can directly contribute and steer it however the community wants. Even if you find a NSFW channel/network it's almost always just porn without any actual discussions. People just spamming links. I'm talking from direct experience. What made me inspired to start this project was writing with people via private messages and seeing how much enthusiasm is actually out there and there's just no good place to gather or at least I haven't found one. I also wanted to practice with Ansible, which was a bonus.
Well as I wrote in the website: "The idea is to have 'live' discussions and sharing, not act as a 'forum'. Sometimes people need a direct real time chat (hopefully not with a bot), so this is why the network exists."
I have plans to add more interactive elements in the future like a way for setting users as "Owned by" or "Owning" for BDSM play and more mechanisms to deal with spammers and etc. but for now I'm just focusing my energy on getting the basics working and seeing if there's real interest and if people would gather. To me it's a really interesting technical and social challenge, so even if it doesn't work as I intended, well my effort and ideas are still out in the open and people can use them if they wish, I'm also learning along the way.