u/Dabber43

I wanted to put out a quick PSA about this website, remove the post if it breaks any rules.

A few weeks ago the website rhyme.com, as they outlined here started a marketing campaign on this subreddit, before getting banned for over-advertising: https://rhyme.com/post/53oy222/the-reddit-problem-and-how-our-reddit-alternative-was-banned

The site looked promising so I joined. I looked through their blog and they decried constant AI usage and promised a "quieter" platform. The philosophy was admirable.

But after I spent a few days I noticed something. Most of the texts had Claude-isms. The UI was trademark Claude. The same inconsistencies. Almost all of the longer posts of the founder "Nick" looked like AI-summaries.

Then there was the claim of this being "in progress for several years" of "a larger team", all of which could be found nowhere on the site. And the domain itself being an obviously extremely pricey domain few people could afford. Something was fishy here.

So I asked a question. A simple transparency question about if this site was vibecoded. It was never answered, while literally any other question was happily answered by Nick.

A month later I asked it again, trying to press it. This time I got a response, but from another account, claiming they could not see my original post.

So I checked with a private tab. And indeed, it was hidden. My post had been shadow-deleted. And a few minutes later, the new post got the same treatment.

Irritated, I tried making a comment in another post outcrying about this. Only to find out that by this point my entire account got shadow-banned. Just for asking a simple transparency question.

So I would say, if you are inclined to try this site out because you believe them when they decry reddit moderation policies, just know they are doing just the same from the very start. And don't get me started on the promises of decrying AI yet obviously relying completely on it, which in combination with that silencing just seems so untrustworthy. In my opinion it is a very dodgy site and I would avoid it.

Hello! Now before I start, please excuse me for being a bit dry and disjointed, I am not really used to advertising my stuff. I should probably do a tl;dr at the end too...

My website is called nyai.me. I developed it 2 years ago and it is both a bot uploading as well as discussion site. It is fully functional! It supports uploading, discussing and the search, while a bit complicated to use right now (you have to click on the settings button on the right of the search bar to unlock the full featureset), is in my opinion the best currently out there. You can even use it without logging in, anonymous posts/uploads included! I intended it to be a general hub of all things bot roleplay. A central place of the whole community, not how everything is currently disjointed, with platforms, communities, sites and discord servers all so fragmented.

Now, you may ask, if you don't like chub/JAI etc., why not just use botbooru, since it seems to be getting trendy right now? Well... for one its search is awful, at least in my experience. And from my understanding and looking at the admin page (https://botbooru.com/profile/380), it seems to be a site that seems to actually be primarily dedicated for lolis. That's fine of course, but my point is that there seems to be a focus here. Mine is more general. I am ambivalent towards any sort of fetish but a strong advocate of free expression and anti-censorship.

So in short, the difference between botbooru and nyai.me could probably be summarized as "dedicated loli website vs general anti censorship website".

So if you are looking to leave chub purely because of lolis, botbooru may be a dedicated community for you. If you on the other hand are just unhappy with chub in general, nyai is intending to be that alternative for you. Loli, NSFL, all that stuff allowed of course, just not as it being the main focus.

Anyway, there are still some issues:

Its UI is... well according to the feedback I have gotten not that great. It takes some getting used to. It is different than other sites. And honestly, still a bit janky. I had to pause development for a few months because of some real life problems so many of these issues have remained unfixed so far as the site meanwhile lost traction again. That was just a very unfortunate situation all around.

But luckily that seems to be behind now, I will be free again for the foreseeable future to put my full effort back into the site. I learned from the past mistakes and issues and will do my best to make this website into what I envisioned at the start! There are still so many ideas I have and features I want to add, like subcommunities or collaborative worlds/lorebooks, just to name a few. But for now my main focus will be fixing up all the UI and UX issues that remain and making the user experience perfect and less "you have to learn an entirely new site interface before you start to see how much it can actually do under the hood".

So, please check it out! And of course I am hugely appreciative of any feedback and suggestions on how to improve the site.

PS: I know first impressions are everything and this site is probably not that good at that. Just keep that in mind please and give it a bit!

tl;dr: 2-year old anti-censorship general bot website for anonymous and user-based discussion and bot sharing. Some good, some issues, currently working on fixing it all up!

Warning: rhyme.com is not what it pretends to be

With all of the recent issues with other bot sites, I would like to ask you to give mine a try, nyai.me!