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 are banned too. Definitely feels politically motivated. Edit 2: seems like at least some (?) bans are being undone, like the above mentioned ones.
Reddit has slowly banned everything that drove ppl to it
First they came for porn - I didn’t care, because I had a couch, then they came for trans stuff - I didn’t care, because I had a couch, then they came for drugs - I didn’t care, because I had a couch, then my couch broke from active couchfucking and there were nobody to help me fix it.
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I thought Musk was the vice president. I mean president.
I’m the people’s politician
I assume they will most likely not come over here because there are users like this mod:
spez wants a cabinet position.
Or musk to buy it and make him super rich
Is it? The first two nsfw subs I tried, both of them were up.
Is there some theme perhaps to what has been banned? Or are you just … full of shit?
I updated the title to reflect that they were being unbanned as of this moment. But if you look at the thread I linked, this was all true a couple hours ago.
This morning I just casually checked “ask reddit after dark” sort of a fun sex community like Lemmy “ask lemmy nsfw”. Was surprised that reddit banned that community. I understand the issues they are having with free speech and even trans stuff based on the new Executive Orders of the Trump administration - but I don’t get it with porn. How is narrative, pics, or videos of porn related stuff an issue?
Go study history. Look up something called “McCarthyism”.
Don’t like your neighbors house color? He’s a communist and should be banned!
But…red houses don’t mean he’s a…
I SAID BANNED!!! YOU’RE BANNED TOO, YOU DISAGREEING COMMUNIST!!!
And as long as the controling crowd is mindlessly agreeing with you, it doesn’t need to make sense, or be logical. That’s McCarthyism in a nutshell.
And the best part is, Americans are dumb, don’t learn from history, and don’t see the inevitable happening right now before them. So you can ban anything. Books. Tv shows. Foods. News. Clouds. Yes, clouds. As in the puffy white things in the sky. Banned. I said it doesn’t need to make sense, didn’t I?
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Good point that those NOT in an affected state DON’T realize. For example if you are in Florida there is no more Pornhub, Xhamster, etc. Unless of course you are dumb enough to submit a picture ID to those sites for verification. If you add to that social media purges of porn then those affected are basically in a no porn environment. Of course some would make the argument that it’s a good thing. But these are people not hurting anyone. They want to see some porn. What’s the big deal?
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Drugs prob saved my friends and I, we never had a bad situation because of reddit I knew dosages, I knew not to do what old top posts had done, just lowered anxiety and got me not to be stupid.
Erowid when I was younger. Then pill reports to make sure what I was getting was what I expected.
I would be dead (and/or in prison) several times over if not for Erowid. This is not an exaggeration.
I recently revisited the site, and even made a donation (now that I can actually afford it).
Basic harm prevention, we were always hydrated, not reading horror stories and seeing all that advice would’ve made me not even think of it
Kinda feels like a warning tbh. Or they’re trying to be another tumblr.
I will love seeing them try to ban noncredibledefense for having LGBTQIA+ flag on it’s profile, having a lot of r34 with planes (if you don’t know the sub, just don’t try to imagine, it will hurt your brain XD), having some gory content (like the meat cube and once again don’t try to imagine XD).
And they are pro-NATO which is something the current administration is not really fond of (including Musk who has been mocked for multiple weeks after his speech about drones vs planes…).
If it really happens, all 400k NCD readers, there is a big NCD community on lemmy so Welcome!
Can you briefly summarise NCD? I’ve been living under a small rock
War shitposting.
Where does the name come from?
incredible defense → non-credible defense → ncd
Someone pushed the code to prod a bit early
Seems like some of the bans are being undone? Testing the waters? Banning everything until a mod steps forward and says they were actively modding?
Yep, updated the title. Hard to not get conspiratorial though when it affects subs like /r/transgender_surgeries… might be testing the waters.
direct link that works on firefox unlike that one https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1iiah18/nsfw_subreddit_purge_many_subs_have_been_banned/
Given that they started unbanning some of these, $20 says these dumbasses plugged in a new “AI mod” without testing it first.
Isn’t NSFW stuff a big part of all reddit OC content and the reason many still have an account there?
I know it’s the only reason I ever end up there these days.
Isn’t NSFW stuff a big part of all reddit OC content and the reason many still have an account there?
If old.reddit.com ever stopped working, NSFW content would be my primary reason for downloading the app…lmao
There are niche subs that don’t exist here. The popular, million+ subs are all trashed, like a NYC sized garbage truck and a couple whales exploded, together. That’s just Reddit post going public.
Even so, there are no well populated hobby or career sites here, for example. And sometimes Reddit still has the only spoiler gaming guide on obscure things.
In mosta cases, the subs DO exist but there is lottle activity in them. The situation would probably be a lot better if some of the lurkers on here would post more regularly to their special-interest niche subs.
Even so, there are no well populated hobby or career sites here, for example.
Unless your hobby is !selfhosted@lemmy.world or you’re a programmer or sysadmin.
There are definitely more active hobby subs than that. Yes, you might only see a dozen of names actively posting/commenting in that community, but it is an active community.
I have no idea what is going on in sports anymore now that i don’t have Reddit. The fediverse is absolutely terrible for sports news
Even so, there are no well populated hobby or career sites here, for example
Well, there’s progress being made on some at least. I’m trying to breathe some life into !musicproduction@sh.itjust.works
I only still go to reddit for that on one account (in incognito). My main account has only recently logged back in for regular browsing (but I try not to comment and I only use old.reddit + res) because Reddit is where a huge amount of the information I’m trying to find online is still housed, game information, niche hobbies, etc… It may be rotting from the inside, but its corpse is still walking and talking, and until the situation gets bad enough people are going to continue using it. I only interact here, but with the nature of how small the communities are, and the fact that I use [All - Top -Past 6 hours] my front page is still basically just the same articles about every fucked up thing going on around me posted onto every instance so I see the same headlines and pictures of Trump almost a dozen times, interspersed with various fetish porn communities.
I see the same headlines and pictures of Trump almost a dozen times
Feel free to block mentions of him name, either on your app or using a uBlock filter: https://lemmy.world/post/24545370
lol if i filtered out trump/musk posts and block the furry instances there would be nothing left!
There is lots of stuff on lemmy outside of Trump/Musk and furries (tbh I think either I blocked the furries or somehow have not come across it for months now)
Try sorting by scaled to we posts form smaller communities trying to grow.
I think the biggest worry could be the repetition. Seeing an article on anything once - be it Brazilian economy or Norwegian electric grid - is interesting and great, but seeing the same article 12 times in a day can get tedious.
This isn’t a problem with just Lemmy, but it’s where I see it as it’s mostly what I use.
I’d like to see a change to prevent this duplication, but I suspect it’d be challenging to merge comment histories and/or keep comments separated. Just, once I’ve seen a trump article, for sure, I don’t want to see that sad dreck another 11 times!
They can’t run ads on the subs though so they can’t use it to monetize. Big reason they got so pissed off at mods changing subs to nsfw
And reddit these days only cares about PR so can also be a time bomb. Only surprised they haven’t nuked everything NSFW
Hard to believe but still true: Some time ago even Onlyfans, which was originally intended as a platform for fitness videos and the like, tried to ban NSFW content for exactly the same reason - to the surprise of absolutely noone it wasn’t a very successful endeavor and was quickly withdrawn.
to the surprise of absolutely noone
I doubt Peter was surprised either.
during the reddit blackout i tried tracking the general activity on reddit and the posts per day dropped by ~10% during that time while the comments per day dropped by ~20%.
When i looked where most posts and comments came from most of it was on porn and hookup communities. Lots of it was also obiously botted.
Always knew that porn on reddit was a big thing but i never realized the scope.
Olympus has fallen folks, r/rule34 has been banned!
I never thought I’d see the day.
