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.

  • @Siegfried@lemmy.world
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    02 months ago

    Wow… Do everything is aligned… are there USA laws pushing this or something? What a pieces of shit

  • @db2@lemmy.world
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    02 months ago

    Anyone who didn’t see this coming a mile away hasn’t been paying attention.

  • The Picard Maneuver
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    02 months ago

    People were predicting this a while back as a way that reddit would make themselves more “advertiser-friendly”.

    I also wonder if there were some legal concerns in those states that now require porn sites to check IDs.

  • Matthew
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    02 months ago

    Certainly expected. It was my last social media (apart from Bluesky). I can’t endorse this as a trans man. Time to be more active on Lemmy and purge my Reddit account.

      • kat
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        02 months ago

        last corporate own social media where a single entiry can remove anything for everybody*

      • Matthew
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        02 months ago

        I wasn’t super active (I created my account when they banned third party apps but the content wasn’t there yet).

      • @darthelmet@lemmy.world
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        02 months ago

        Idk if this distinction works for anyone else, but in my mind places like Reddit or Lemmy aren’t the same thing as “social media” because they maintained the anonymous forum structure. The activity on the site isn’t centered around people and personalities, it’s the content being discussed.

    • edric
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      02 months ago

      I saw one thread where lemmy was being recommended and some people were on board with moving over, so that was nice to see.

  • @sajhino@lemmy.world
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    02 months ago

    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.

      • @NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip
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        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.

        • @scarabic@lemmy.world
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          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.

          • @Gigasser@lemmy.world
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            02 months ago

            Is it really that complex? The API fiasco had me moving here, and I’ll tell you right now, I ain’t the tech savviest.

            • @scarabic@lemmy.world
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              02 months ago

              You’re probably underselling yourself. Obviously everyone who can read this made it over this barrier so I knew there was a high probability of responses like “It doesn’t seem hard to me.”

              I understand. But I’ve actually had lots of opportunities to sit in a usability lab, observing digital product testing with regular people. And let me tell you, most of them struggle with basics. TBH it can be hard at times to keep from bursting out laughing.

          • @aesthelete@lemmy.world
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            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.

            This is a very good point. I think the longevity and robustness of the ecosystem matters more than the active user count today. Eventually through pure erosion lemmy and other decentralized platforms could wind up winning in popularity as well if things get worse everywhere else and they’re stable enough to continue adding new users.

          • @SabinStargem@lemmings.world
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            02 months ago

            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.

          • Glitterkoe
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            02 months ago

            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.

      • Jessica
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        02 months ago

        Just thinking the same thing. I wonder if this gets reversed or not.

        • @Petter1@lemm.ee
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          02 months ago

          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.

        • @Arkouda@lemmy.ca
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          02 months ago

          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

            • @Arkouda@lemmy.ca
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              02 months ago

              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.

          • @Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            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.

          • @Siegfried@lemmy.world
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            02 months ago

            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.

      • @Fizz@lemmy.nz
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        02 months ago

        How is nsfw Lemmy doing for hosting costs? Seems like it would be expensive to maintain all the images.

        • @orclev@lemmy.world
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          02 months ago

          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.

    • @danc4498@lemmy.world
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      02 months ago

      They get all the nsfw traffic for the full quarter, and use that for their earnings report. Pretty damn dishonest.

    • darreninthenet
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      02 months ago

      If I had to guess, they are testing the ability to switch these off in anticipation of more Trumpian laws being passed

  • @gimmemahlulz@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    It looks like a lot of the subs mentioned in that post are back already, including the ones mentioned in the post tile. While i completely agree that reddit is a shitstain, this may have been a bug?

  • @Kaboom@reddthat.com
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    02 months ago

    /r/rule34 is banned, meanwhile /r/guro is still up. Wtf is wrong with reddit? That’s the one sub I actually think should be banned, why ban the rule34?

    • asudox
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      Just checked that subreddit out. Seems like the perfect place for necrophiles. That is just disgusting to look at. Though I don’t think it is something that should be removed.

    • 2xsaiko
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      02 months ago

      How about neither of them should be banned. Fuck this puritan BS

        • TimeSquirrel
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          It’s art. It’s not real, and it’s not hurting anybody in real life. We shouldn’t ban things because they make you uncomfortable, we ban them when they harm actual people.

          Edit: this is in no way an endorsement of that particular fetish. I personally think it’s sick and disgusting. But it’s not my place to tell someone else not to enjoy it if nobody was harmed in its production.

  • @async_amuro@lemm.ee
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    02 months ago

    I’d stopped using the platform a while ago and went full Lemmy, but this was the push I needed to delete that shit out of my life. Just need to figure out Google and Apple next, they’ve got me by the balls with those services!

  • @Fizz@lemmy.nz
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    02 months ago

    Ah the tumblr guide for how to kill your community.

    Jokes aside that’s very sad and very worrying.

  • @njordomir@lemmy.world
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    02 months ago

    Kinky people are still going to be kinky even if they can’t post about it on Reddit. Here’s to hoping lemmyNSFW gets some of those “niche subs”. ;-)

  • asudox
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    02 months ago

    Good. Let’s have people come here.