You Can't Look at Porn on Any Reddit Third-Party App Now
You Can't Look at Porn on Any Reddit Third-Party App Now
Following changes to its API access, users are forced to log in on the official Reddit app if they want to view NSFW content on mobile.
Following changes to its API access, users are forced to log in on the official Reddit app if they want to view NSFW content on mobile.
What's a Reddit?
I've heard it was a popular discussion place people would go to. Even called the front page of the internet because it was the first and best source for compiled news and information. Its CEO had some quotes that showed how important free flow of information was.
"I don't think we should silence people just because their viewpoints are something we disagree with. There is value in the conversation, and we as a society need to confront these issues. This is an incredibly complex topic, and I'm sure our thinking will continue to evolve."
"We are not the thought police. It's not the role of a private company to decide what people can and cannot say."
He was also forward thinking in designing an open forum, controlled by individuals.
"Our approach to governance is that communities can set appropriate standards around language for themselves. Many communities have rules around speech that are more restrictive than our own, and we fully support those rules."
Wait, that sounds more like the Fediverse.
A miserable pile of secrets
A Reddit is when you destroy a social media platform because you're angry with its users. It's a common billionaire or wannabe billionaire move.
A miserable little pile of shitposts. But enough talk... Have at you!
A lot of deleted comments
Must be one of those eReader things.
If you see this message, then you've reddit already.
A featherless biped
One of those dead websites like Digg, MySpace, Livejournal etc.
Not just porn! Since reddit only has one such tag you can apply to posts, many subreddits were using the NSFW tag for a wider variety of reasons such as spoilers, content which may contain unsettling material (aka "triggers"), and more!
To be fair, there's been a site wide spoiler tag for a few years now, but yeah before it was introduced people used NSFW for that if a community didn't allow actual NSFW stuff or whatever
It’s not all NSFW. The Synology community I followed went full NSFW in protest and I can still view their subreddit. I cannot view subreddits such as watchitfortheplot. So somehow Reddit is differentiating.
This is the true final blow to third party apps.
I noticed they did something similar to the mobile website. Even with appropriate content blockers there’s absolutely no way you can see sexually explicit content on mobile without their app.
Request the desktop site. Just tried it in Firefox on Android and it no longer says to open in app.
Or use old.reddit.com too.
Or don't use it.
Or use old.reddit.com too.
Interesting calculus here. Before the r/pocalyspe I'd have said old-reddit was on a 3 month clock to being summarily retired
They also likely lost way more users than they anticipated through the blackouts, and might just let old-reddit be to protect their numbers until the IPO. As long as its not on default Main page, I doubt the advertisers will care. They'll kill it when they can do so quickly and quietly
I'd recommend setting one's own browser to automatically redirect to old.reddit.com for the occasion they might need to find that rare technical solution/see sum tiddies.
I just did a quick test with the DuckDuckGo browser. Didn't seem to have any issues loading a bunch of NSFW posts. You have to be signed in though, but I think it's been like that for quite a while now.
old-reddit can still do it while logged out. It's only new-reddit that requires logging in.
They even do the same thing with SFW posts, they just say it’s “unreviewed content” or whatever.
I logged onto Apollo using side loading. NSFW still works??
Shit platform hits rock bottom and continues digging
Digg-ing
Honestly, it seems what Reddit has been doing lately is far worse than anything Digg ever did. 🤷♂️ Digg basically just made a bunch of bad design decisions primarily but not entirely to please investors, and the majority of changes were not welcomed by the community.
Reddit is straight up disrespecting their userbase and telling them to suck a fat one and deal with it, holding to their miserable decisions while openly suggesting their userbase is too weak to go anywhere else... And also doing so primarily to please misguided investors.
You still can if you're a subreddit mod, so I just did this:
- Create your own private sub
- You become a mod! Yay!
- NSFW now works on 3rd party app
Ah so this is why my apps sorta kinda work but are buggy as shit.
You are the real mvp
Which app are you using? On boost it tries to load (even non NSFW) but it does not load the posts.
Edit: NVM, Took a while but SFW and NSFW posts indeed are still loading on boost, for various accounts of mine.
The way the block works is that NSFW content works as it used to, but subs tagged by admins as porn will not.
Also be sure to put a bunch of stupid shit in your sub to make the site more lame. Post about how it's lame and people should use Lemmy or Kbin instead.
People should start mirroring Reddit porn to the appropriate fedi hubs. Porn is how tech grows; hate it or love it.
May I present you PornLemmy?
Already happening
RIP In Pieces Reddit. This is what will finally kill that site.
So how's the pr0n scene on Lemmy? Asking for a friend.
Lemmynsfw.com has plenty
Also pornlemmy.com
The admin is a pedo (check the loli comment).
New instance, seems promising
Thanks friend!
Do we really need porn Here? Im trying to figure that out for myself.
Anyone can just create a porn instance, so why not as long as it's moderated (and hopefully not full of illegal content)?
Remember to leave a review on the official reddit app regarding it's porno abilities - if there's anything google/iOS app stores love more than anything it's an abundance of apps dedicated to viewing porn
LMAO, perfect
That was like, half the reason I used reddit, lol. Otherwise it's just a shithole full of "aHkshUaly" people.
Take your clothes off, or give me something actually interesting and insightful to read, or fuck right off.
Brains or butthole, otherwise keep walking.
Words to live by. You should do T-Shirts.
Lmao this puritanical turn from all these tech companies over the last 5-6 years I don't get it. All they are going to do is speed self-immolation. What is happening to the internet.
All companies that go to IPO purge their porn content beforehand unless they are dedicated pornography businesses, and even those have a massive shakeup of what content is and is not allowed (pornhub and onlyfans being examples). It's not because they're "puritanical". When a company IPOs it opens itself up to share purchases but what most people miss is that it also opens itself up to shortselling, this is essentially a shares "downvote" where the person shorting a company can make money if the company's value goes down.
Negative press causes a company's value to go down. And the people that own the press are the financial industry, they use and weaponise their media contacts and friends to achieve financial outcomes very successfully.
So when a company IPOs one of the things it does is seek to remove all possible things on a service that can be weaponised as negative press against the company in order for people to profit off of shortselling the drop in value this causes in the market.
The situation is that Reddit and Imgur have a sizeable amount of likely illegal pornographic content on their servers.
Their options are:
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To ban all the porn. Which it looks like they are trying to do. On paper this is the best option for investors, as it protects the investment. However in the real world this can piss off the userbase and tank the website by losing a sizeable amount of users (see Tumblr).
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To continue without any changes. This is also guarantees the investment tanking, all it takes is one Anderson Cooper style jailbait investigation into Reddit to destroy the investment. I guarantee that there is a significant amount of underage content uploaded to it, certainly enough to stir up a shitstorm in the media.
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To implement proper age verification for pornographic content, like pornhub and onlyfans did. But in the investment world it is unpopular to be seen as a person that invests in pornography, the investors don't want it to be public knowledge that they are investing in a porn website in some way and Reddit implementing proper verification processes will make it clear that Reddit is a pornography business. Thus also devaluing the investment.
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The VC money dried up
They are losing access to nearly limitless free money
can't look at anything on most 3rd party apps to be fair....
I'm still using Sync. Patched it using Revanced. I also see NSFW on it, because I started a bullshit NSFW sub. Shout out to https://reddit.com/r/droidsgonewild . I even posted some content so it didn't look like I was just trying to get NSFW thru the API.
Reddit couldn't meet their own deadlines. I'm using infinity on android, and its still working, at least to view content when logged out.
The apps that don't work either chose to close, or had their their api keys revoked.
We all know what happened to Tumblr right?
They massacred my boy!
Judge me as the deranged pervert I am but there was a blog hurtboys that collated pictures of hot guys with bruises I miss to this day :'(
https://old.reddit.com/ still seems to work, and that one doesn't force you to use the app or login.
The grim reaper is coming for old.reddit.com any day now.
A few weeks ago when I still used Reddit via old.Reddit I was constantly getting switched to the new Reddit. It was infuriating.
Yeah that's likely
Spez is looking after /r/anal harder than anyone else is.
Unfortunately, his crappy app wouldn't let him fap in peace.
So reddit continues to fight its own user base...
Wait you can even view reddit on a 3rd party app at all? Which app playoffs the $10m to still work with reddit?
Yeah, theres a few that are gonna switch to a subscription model to pay off the ridiculous price reddit is asking. Fucking shills, man.
I wouldn't necessarily say shills. I can't say I know the ins and outs of app development but I'm sure it could come about that a particular dev doesn't have the know how or capital to start a new project.
What I do know is that I've worked for companies who's morals I don't approve of to make ends meet.
Boost was still working till now on Android. They seem to have finally killed it.
I just tried and was still able to pull up the front page in Boost when logged in but it was super slow and no NSFW access.
Red Reader will continue to function.
You can use them if you aren't logged into your account. I still try BaconReader every once in awhile, just to see my old friend. Even the NSFW links worked just now.
NSFW stopped working on RiF
It is still based on usage so you don't need to cough up 10 mil for starters. You ONLY need something like 10$ a month per user. Can't recall the exact numbers anymore but the point remains.
Yeah thanks for the accurate number. It wasn't as ridiculous as I recalled. Should've checked it first.
Still unreasonably high (checked the Apollo post, he calculated it would be multiple times more than what average reddit user currently brings to table).
The purpose of my comment was to point out that the mentioned 10 million dollars would mean 4 million active users if it's monthly fee.
Theoretically anyone could make their own app with the api and pay the api cost directly.
Oh no! Anyways...
Porn is the reason, the internet is so popular. It's basically a driving force!
I can't remember the exact quote but someone once said "if all porn was removed from the internet tomorrow, by the next day there would be one website left called bringbacktheporn.com
That's a quote from "Scrubs", dr Cox says it
yes you can. you just have to be a moderator of ANY subreddit. so if you create your own subreddit or moderate already one, nsfw is still enabled.
This works even if you create a private subreddit, and it just takes like 30 seconds. I'm now proudly moderating r/fuckuspez1.
I must be a mod of a sub without me realising then. I’m using Apollo via side loading and NSFW still works.
Unless it’s banned just on the ones like narwhal and dystopia?
Is there a way to check which subs you moderate?
Upvote this one, the like makes the whole thing moot
It is ultimately a way to further cripple 3rd part apps. Thus, making the official Reddit app look better by comparison. It’s not certain if Reddit will get rid of porn, because while porn sub-reddits don’t generate ad revenue, a not insignificant portion of Reddit’s user-base visit porn sub-reddits, making Reddit a good one-stop-shop for a user’s media related need. So while porn doesn’t generate ad revenue, it brings users, users who also visit other non-porn sub-reddits that do.
PSA: Hardened browsers (desktop or mobile) are still an option. I know it isn't <YourFavoriteAppHere> but it would be difficult to convince me that the official app is better than even that.
TLDR: Hhhhhe he said "hardended." uh heh heh...
Modding a NSFW subreddit also unblocks all of it. Anyone can just make a private sub and mark it 18+ and still have all their porn, tested it on Relay and it worked fine. For science, of course.
It doesn't even have to be NSFW. Modding any subreddit work.
Edit: Welp, nevermind. It seems Boost is down now.
Which is kind of funny because one of the reasons Reddit got so big was because of the pornography
It killed tumblr, now it's after reddit.
Shit I can’t even use a third party app they all went dark, hence why I’m here
Never come between a horny internet user and pr0n 🍆
How’s the porn on lemmy/lemmy.world?
One of the larger instances is lemmynsfw.com, there’s a fair amount of porn there.
Not quite the levels there are on Reddit, though. And very little OC from what I’ve seen.
https://pornlemmy.com/ seems to have better content
The admin is a pedo (check the loli comment).
Nowhere near to the same level of niche.
Fediverse is strangely prudish. Not much porn, and when it shows up, instances defederate from it.
Awesome, even less reason to go back now.
It is possible on Stealth which is an accountless option with options to use a teddit instance. Little reason to even have an account anymore on reddit, and for those who say subs. Stealth lets you have a feed too. And those that say saving comments or posts Stealth lets you do that too. All locally and exportable.
If you continue using reddit on the phone why let reddit keep harvesting account specific data while just lurking? Go use stealth instead over doing stuff like patching past third party apps and logging in and letting them track your activity then being drawn to add value to the platform through engagement by being tempted to upvotes, downvote, and post.
💀
It's a Foss reddit app available from f-droid. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.cosmos.unreddit/
There are still 3rd party apps?
They claim to be apps for the blind. Most of the 3rd party apps are gone though.
Porn works on Stealth available on f-droid if you switch the source to web scrapping. Not that I advocate using Reddit
right nowever again.Oh, that's interesting. I was hoping a scraper would emerge. Stealth's scraper (currently) doesn't seem to actually display content that is marked nsfw. Maybe they haven't yet figured out how to detect/accept the confirm 18+ barrier on old.reddit.com.
I had no problems going to a NSFW sub. If you go to Settings > Reddit Source and try either Reddit or Reddit (Web Scrapper), maybe one or the other will work?
never knew stealth had that option, thank you!
Don't care about this.
There was this great community on r/medicalgore where people shared pics of symptoms of their health problems or photos made during their operations. This allowed everyone to fear less about own health problems. The whole sub was always NSFW.
Let the porn flow on lemmy!
For science I just pulled up a few long-established pornography-specific subreddits (photo, video, and prose-based) in the current version of RedReader, the app which has been spared the axe by Reddit for now. I can confirm that the NSFW subreddits and individual posts still seems to be working and viewable in that app.
EDIT: Disregard, per reply comments this won't work after an update. :-P
u/redditmaturecontent forcing me to browse pornhub
it's such a stupid thing. like reddit is not earning anything anyway if I am going there only for porn. like advertisers are not going to put ads in NSFW subs anyway. what's the point of this change
The point of this is to:
- Reduce the number of API requests from whatever 3rd party apps are left; this reduces server load and costs.
- Coerce users into trying the 1st party app and tolerating it so they can watch NSFW content. This may cause some users to abandon the 3rd party app and just settle for the 1st party app.
I doubt it has much to do with advertising.
That's like banning incest from pornhub.
Wait, but I'm pretty sure they did. Like pretend incest. It's why everything has "Step" in it.
And you just use desktop mode
Not just nsfw content, it's bullshit when any site tries to force you to use an app because of a bit of text in your browser profile
Facebook did it for years and any site that does it I avoid
using Sync modified with Vanced and I can still tittys.
Is it possible to learn this power?
Seriously, is there a guide I can follow?
the official revanced guide at https://github.com/revanced/revanced-manager/tree/docs/docs
look up sync vanced for instructions. Additionally, I created an 18+ subreddit and set it to private to become a mod. not sure if the second part is needed but i did anyways and I can still use sync and see nsfw for now
i thought sync was dead?
look up sync vanced for instructions. Additionally, I created an 18+ subreddit and set it to private to become a mod. not sure if the seconds part is needed but i did anyways and I can still use sync and see nsfw for now
I used Reddit partly because I didn't want to pay for porn.
There goes my Reddit addiction
Obvious? Why are we talking about this still? Access was
terminatedpay walled almost a week ago.Sexually explicit content was still available through the paywalled API until yesterday.
I am surprised any 3rd party clients remained connected for that to matter.
It takes a while to get major changes like this to make it's way to the live branch. If this didn't hit at the same time as API costs, then that likely means there was a bug preventing the restriction on nsfw content
Interestingly r/PICS still works despite being tagged NSFW (or so I thought?)
Yes, some nsfw posts go through. I assume reddit is using some kind of nudity detector. Or is there a 18+ flag you can apply independently of nsfw?
I think reddit has an internal distinction between NSFW and "sexually explicit", and it's at least partially set by the whims of reddit admins instead of sub mods.
I got my RiF golden platinum working again by using revanced manager and a guide to patch in my own api key. I can still view NSFW content on it too. Not sure if it will stop eventually. But works right now. I only wanted to keep it for the NSFW stuff as lemmy is only just starting in that department. Been refusing to use it for general browsing though. Trying to stick with lemmy.
Yup, that's the end of the road for me
Hmm seems I can still access from ravanced Sync
also, supposedly, if you're a moderator you can access nsfw content
Still works on stealth for android
isnt this exactly what they did to alienblue years ago?
I still can on latest Infinity
🎶 crackin' down on fun, over at Reddit🎶
Is r/ trying to do the scientology/Catholic thing where they want to see what you jerk off to in order to use it as blackmail material?
Who cares, it was all bots and only fans
There was /r/nofans.
Isn't that how Tumblr also died?
I'm having Tumblr flashbacks.
Joey for Android still works.
Oh sweet, it still works? I uninstalled it on the 1st because I found muscle memory had me opening it and I didn't want the dev racking up fees on my behalf. Hope he figured it out, I know he really poured time keeping that app going.
My app is still pulling NSFW content from the API as of right now. Let’s see how it goes.
Boost stopped working for me. It just keeps trying to load and nothing
You need to be a moderator for Boost to work. Just create your own sub to gain a few extra days on Boost.
My (custom) app using password authentication is still pulling in content as of right now.
Make yourself a mod and patch with revanced and you can still see nsfw content. For now.
If you own a NSFW sub or are a moderator of one, you still have the possibility to see NSFW content over third-party apps / API
You just need to be a moderator of any subreddit. The subreddit itself doesn't need to be NSFW. The idea is that moderators could have a need to evaluate NSFW content on user profiles to make moderation decisions.
They all moved here already! Lol
Where?
Kind of ironic that the content they can't monetize through ads is the content they're blocking from third parties
I still have Infinity installed and I can still porn. Is it possible existing API keys have the permission to fetch NSFW posts. Though it won't be long lived though.
Reddit moderators can see all nsfw content. So your account is likely a moderator or creator of a subreddit.
If you're a mod on any sub you can still see nsfw content on any other sub?
This is an interesting loophole. I didn't think I was either of those.
Hopefully this brings some more communities to Lemmy. Some of my niche weed related subreddits like divinetribe had to be nsfw and I’d love them to move over here.
still works in Narwhal...
It still works using my own API key
Eh, honestly I don't care about the porn, but with a lot of subreddits flying the NSFW flag just to piss off advertisers, that makes life a lot more shitty. shrugs Oh well, just one more reason to make myself scarce there.
Admins sent out letters saying to change back to safe for work or the mods will lose mod power and be banned.
Some are falling in line. Others are not.
Not sure how many backup mods they can have for $0.
Pretty sure once subreddits that lose their mods are forced to be "sfw" people are gonna spam nsfw content because their moderation will be weak.
Steve Huffman declared war on the internet. Sony tried that once. Didn't go so well.
Yeah, I don't see this ending well for him.
@L4s In mobile browser still works, but they already said that the mobile website will be killed.
Source? Not that I don't believe it, but I've seen it thrown around quite a few times and I can't find where did they say that.
@Syrc According to one of the admins they were experimenting with removing the login in mobile websites.
That means that they're preparing for a possible future where they remove said feature.https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/135tly1/comment/jim40zg/
I still can. Using Boost unpatched. Am I lucky?
Boost just went down for me. Goodnight sweet prince
Just logged in to check. Headed to fridge to pour one out for my dead homie.
RIP Boost. Until we meet again in Lemmy.
Mine still works, unpatched, NSFW and all, like nothing happened. I'm a "mod" of my own private subreddit, though.
I think so, I finally had to uninstall Boost today after it wouldn't load posts anymore. I was surprised it was working this long past July 1st even though they said it wasn't.
My boost loaded a lemme plug and stopped working, but now is working again. Idk when it will die, just trying to get ahead of it.
I just tested with Relay. I can view NSFW subs. I should note my account seems to be flagged as NSFW for posting to interestingasfuck after it went NSFW.
Only reason I still use reddit was for the large comps of stuff I liked. Guess infinity is gone for me forever now.
But you can on here ;)
For a moment I thought it said Digg…. Or tumbler. Probably Digg.
Still works for me on base infinity
Still works for me on Sync via the ReVanced bypass.
I set my subreddit to NSFW and I still get NSFW in Relay
You don’t even need to set it NSFW. Just need to be a mod I believe
A friend told me that other apps like Telegram still have a ton of porn on them allegedly.
Based
really amazing it's still working with libreddit (or so I've heard)
Relay still seems to be working.
Well, actually, you can view it through Infinity.
Mobile browser still works fine for me. Is that not the case for everyone?
Why does anyone give a shit about Reddit?
It's still quite a large platform, and porn is one of its strong suits.
Was.
Schadenfreude.
You can't look at Reddit at all on third party apps now. Or did I miss a change to their API change?
I think they made some exception for "educational" applications, but access has to be granted on a case-by-case basis, and let's say those a very far and between.
not true, still works on non-patched Boost
Yeah I don't know what's going on with boost
Nor forking for me.
i just realized, its cuz im a mod of a subreddit, thats why. just create your own subreddit and then itll work
Is this really a problem? It's not like the internet is begging for more porn.
A problem for the internet? No
A problem for people who enjoy NSFW content and prefer to find it on Reddit? Yeah.
Fine by me. I turn that off anyway. Don’t want to see it there.
Why would you look for porn on Reddit of all places? There's lots of porn and the internet is a big place. Reddit is a sorry place to post and view it in the first place.
Oh my naive friend, porn is like 1/3 of all of reddit.
What was the saying..."there's a subreddit for everything."
Clearly you haven't been looking enough. There's a bazillion porn sites of every imaginable type including a truly horrifying amount of incomprehensibly weird shit. Reddit is amateur hour.
Bullshit. Reddit is one of the easiest places to find porn for whatever kink/fetish you have. Combine that with the abundance of people that post their nudes there (even before the rise of OF), and you have one of the biggest databases of porn with easy save options, all tied to your anonymous account. If anything, porn is about the only reason I miss Reddit.
For the hyperspecific curation. There are subreddits that specialize in any type of content you could want.
how down bad do you have to be to jerk off mobiley? humanity is doomed
Yeah well, I still jerk off manually
This poor English would be adorable if your message weren't so negative.