I also know that there’s been issues with the Lemmy-NSFW fork being used, some people want us to fork it, make modifications to it and use that. I’m going to shoot this idea down now. Burggit is just me and Burger, there’s no one else here, and we do have other things we like working on. We’re not maintaining an entire special fork. It’s likely that we will just go back to the main Lemmy branch, though I would be open to arguments against that or maybe even suggestions for already existing forks to use.
If compromise modifications aren’t an option, then I think it’s crucial that we stick with the NSFW patched version as it is. I conjecture that allowing NSFW posts and communities to be seen without logging in will make the difference between this place slowly growing vs slowly dying. I don’t have access to numbers to back this up, and we’d likely need a longer trial run of the NSFW patched version to judge whether there’s an inflection point. However, the “ghost town” effect that has been mentioned is real. People largely will not go through a registration process before they have an idea of what the site has to offer.