Something big is happening, as Reddit seems to have purged literally every NSFW sub they know. Reason is always “unmoderated” despite some of the banned subreddits being fully moderated.
Edit: seems to have been a bug in automation (thanks @lefty7283@lemmy.world):
https://old.reddit.com/r/ModSupport/comments/1ii67mt/_/mb3fewv
It’s still a good reminder on how quickly a community (or communities) thousands of people enjoy and in some cases rely upon can disappear.
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I don’t care about NSFW subs per se, but they’re useful canaries in the coal mine. If they’re gone gone, it’s a fine indicator of what’s about to come next.
this was literally why i still kinda used reddit. welp hello lemmynsfw!
Lol they still didn’t ban r/piracy?
That’s so surprising, I thought it would be one of the first ones to go…
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Since when is drinking rum, singing sea shanties, and downloading content hidden behind a monthly subscription in 4k illegal?
that’s funny because I was banned for saying fireworks in Brampton Ontario
Remember when tumblr got rid of porn and everyone stopped using it.
Reminds me of an old favorite CollegeHumor video comedy skit series - “A Message From Your Favorite CEO” featuring the Tumblr CEO…
Shockingly it’s still alive, and even moreso there’s still porn, albeit softcore and/or censored with links pointing to Bluesky and/or patreon. There are also pornbots that pop up and follow me every now and again.
r/drugs has been banned?? That was one of my favorite place on Reddit back in the days :(I haven’t found a community for that here :(
(Edit: Drug Reddit was amaziiing, especially r/shrooms r/trees r/dxm | can’t really start a community because I’m not regular enough in this area, I guess that’s a good thing)
Same, when I was a teenager it was Erowid for all my questions, then r/drugs in college. I also loved r/tooktoomuch, which had the best life lessons to offer.
Is erowid still good? I have it enshrined in the back of my head as the place for plant info
Erowid is used by researchers still AFAIK. Notably on MDMA research.
havent heard of ‘Erowid’ in a minute. Great memories back then, simpler times
I learned so much off ppl tweaking off taking too much, life saver for sure.
I learned all the thing that kept me safe on there too; and the life story were interesting and also the trip reports and experiment!
This was something I couldn’t get IRL until a long time, and still, is not very active today (my friends and I are all busy we can’t really experiment !! Maybe next time we see each other)
OK but how the FUCK did r/forcedcreampie survive the purge?
Porn is made by actors who sometimes roleplay scenes that aren’t actually real.
Under the New Founding Fathers, forced cream pies are ok, willing abortions are not.
Oh that’s the most vile and gut wrenchingly nauseating comment i read all year. Well done and well said.
New Founding Fathers sounds too distinguished. I vote for Foundling Man-babies.
in other news, lemmy’s NSFW instances see an influx of users
Hi folks!
Howdy!
hello and welcome!
this cesspit is less bad!
Remember “Digg” ?
hopefully the fact lemmy is more decentralized should avoid another digg or reddit situation
With Mark Blue flowers and Steven Davis? Wait! Its coming back to me!
Kevin Rose and the other guy who was chunky!
Dont they have to wait like 2 weeks tho to post images or is that just some instances
i think thats per instance, didnt have this problem on mine. theres a lot of things that are decided per instance and you can see wildly different cultures starting to thrive between instances.
its looking up, i hope lemmy keeps going well.
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And nothing of value was lost
Many of these subreddits were not straight up porn. But then again, it is Reddit, should nuke the site altogether.
Exactly
My guess is that they’re expecting some new federal anti-porn legislation and are prepping for that. Porn is already basically outlawed in much of the south, (if not explicitly, then implicitly due to how many hoops porn makers need to jump through), and republicans have made it clear that they want to bring conservative policies at the federal level so liberal states can’t overrule them.
It’s on the list for project 2025.
No porn. No weed.
Overwatch r34 ban
So you have chosen death by a thousand exoduses
Yeah this worked out great for OnlyFans, Tumblr, and Flickr. At least OnlyFans was smart enough to remember which side their bread was buttered on.
the tumblr one is so funny because yahoo promised not to screw it up and then they did
And now there’s still tons of NSFW content, they just started labeling it as NSFT (not safe for Tumblr) to get around the auto censors
My experience is that modern NSFW on tumblr is just porn bots. You used to get really nice, high quality slutty art for whatever TV show or movie character tripped your trigger. Now they have an Ai bot that’s trained itself to flag black and white sfw sketches but not straight up literal tiddy drop videos with spam links below them.
Right, but they purged all the old stuff :'(
All thanks to Apple’s censorship of their forced App Store, which is arguably the worst thing to ever happen to computing. Zero percent joking.
What would be left if onlyfans got rid of porn? Wtf. I’m not paying to watch someone fix rust on their car.
Exactly.
Just following in Tumblr’s footsteps. They have to sanitize it to fully monetize it.
Hmm, delicious pasteurised reddit.
Terrible choice caving into the pseudo-moralists, but they’ve been going down a bad path for a long time. They should’ve looked at the cautionary tale of Tumblr before committing this own goal. Making sweeping changes to fit in with corporate agendas may be popular among their own class, but it also has the longer-term effect of sacrificing the user base. And they’ve been hemorrhaging for a while anyway. Where do they think their future profits will come from?
