Xaeg/Yay was the owner of LemmyNSFW, and he had access to and paid for the domain, server, and everything else related to the site. He has been AWOL for about 6 months now, and suddenly this month, the server and the domain stopped being paid for. I have no access to the server to get the database.
Because of this LemmyNSFW as it was, and all the content on it, much to my dismay, seems to have died.
IIRC the admin vanished, the server was doing fine for a while then stopped :(
That seems to be the case. As posted at this new instance which appears to be trying to fill the void (heh) left by lemmyNSFW: