Reddit is purging NSFW subs as well as trans-related subreddits
Reddit is purging NSFW subs as well as trans-related subreddits
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/37090761
This includes some porn subreddits as well as subreddits like /r/Drugs. Apparently due to being "unmoderated", but some were not. What are your thoughts?
Edit: apparently also subreddits like /r/transgender_surgeries is banned too. Definitely feels politically motivated.
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Yeah a lot of banned nsfw subs today at /r/BannedSubs. People are saying it's because next week Reddit is gonna announce their Q4 earnings and want to attract more investors and advertisers to their "cleaner" site. Lame-ass puritans, I'd say.
edit: Looks like the bans have been reversed. A reddit admin claimed it was "a bug". Bruh, what kind of bug would only affect veeeery specific nsfw and political subreddits lmao.
How'd that work out for tumblr?
Tumblr was already in a bad place and was further cannibalized by instagram (and reddit).
Reddit still has no meaningful alternatives. Yes, we like lemmy. Most people don't and won't. They want corporate social media. Just look at how long it took people to leave twitter. And they only did once BlueSky had open sign ups.
My money is on a bunch of "protest" posts and subreddits to track this and people mostly just sit around and not care. With a lot saying "I don't need porn on reddit, I have the internet" while completely ignoring things like trans erasure.
They want corporate social media
Huh? I follow your point about people and their inertia. But I don’t follow this part.
What turns people off about Lemmy is the complexity of instances and federation and clients. We’re talking about your uncle Bob and his level of ordinary people. We should not forget that these people scrunched up their faces at Twitter itself for years and said ”but what is it?” Only in the fullness of time did it permeate our entire society.
If by “corporate social media” you mean “free, simple, high quality UX, and high popularity” then I agree with you. But it’s the simplicity and popularity that count, not the corporateness.
I am hoping the EU and Blue States does a funding program to make open-source and federated projects more user-friendly. There is far too many proprietary ecosystems that will turncoat within years. We need alternatives that are approachable and easy for people to transfer their lives into.
But in the end it's just as with email: providers, spam filters and clients. Some providers have stricter spam filters (~federation), some might prefer another client. Has there been any significant reason to deviate from that terminology?
Meaningful discovery is a major issue in adoption, though. Pro: no search/discovery algorithm that serves some evil plan of world enshittification. Con: no search/discovery algorithm.
Just thinking the same thing. I wonder if this gets reversed or not.
If I had to guess, they are testing the ability to switch these off in anticipation of more Trumpian laws being passed
That is good news for my nsfwlemmy.com alt 😏😆
Don't be a coward, jerk off on your main and your alt!
In my experience it is better to segregate NSFW and SFW accounts. Not because it is shameful and I don't want people seeing, but because NSFW floods feeds and I can't get anything done when encumbered by pretty naked women. lol
A post i saw in reddit back in the day mapped the net of linked communities in comment section. To surprise of no one, nsfw and sfw were in practice fully seggregated.
Even in the Working From Home age, that content is Not Suitable For Work because the blood frequenty rushing away from one's brain isn't good for productivity.
And it's pretty wild when trying to scroll anything in public or with people nearby.
Not an issue I have to contend with personally as I don't use anything other than my laptop at home when I want to be on the internet, but a very valid reason to separate NSFW from SFW social media nonetheless.
I had it like this in Reddit and my account 90% porn only pretty fast and I missed all the non porn stuff 😅
So starting here on lemmy I decided to go for a split right from beginning on different instances to additionally check each instance’s meta community about downtimes in case of a downtime.
Fine, I'll get an NSFW alt...
How is nsfw Lemmy doing for hosting costs? Seems like it would be expensive to maintain all the images.
Just like reddit it mostly doesn't host the images itself, but simply links to them. Redgif seems to be the host of choice for most, although some also use catbox.
The reaction was the bug.
Testing a new AI moderator in production, I’d wager.
Like Facebook?
They get all the nsfw traffic for the full quarter, and use that for their earnings report. Pretty damn dishonest.
The kind where they were getting ready to do it, and then pulled the trigger early
They clearly have a list.