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.

  • @[email protected]
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    144 hours ago

    yea so i finally left reddit today and joined lemmy. the internet was better when it wasn’t controlled by billionaires.

    • @[email protected]
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      32 hours ago

      The NSFW subs were mostly onlyfans girls giving us a sneak peek of what we can see if we pay them.

      Actually not a huge loss.

    • @[email protected]
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      27 hours ago

      My thought exactly. Apparently people are using that stinky site for something that’s not just porn?

      • @[email protected]
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        47 hours ago

        Where else is there to go when I want to read content that’s an unmarked advertisement?

        Oh right, the NYT/WSJ/WaPo exists, nevermind.

    • @[email protected]
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      86 hours ago

      “I’m Steve Huffman, Chief Executive Ball Gargler of reddit. Elon loves me, no really!”

    • @[email protected]
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      67 hours ago

      I have to ask but uh, does he REALLY look like that, or has someone photoshopped him. Because if you look up ‘weird nerd nobody liked in highschool on a power trip because he runs a webstie now’ on wikipedia, that’s the image you’d get.

      (And before I get lambasted about how I’m judging someone from their appearance: just no. I just find it hilarious the guy who acts like that also happens to look exactly like you’d expect. Some sort of uh, appearance determination thing, or whatever.)

      • @[email protected]
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        56 hours ago

        This is the original. It looks like they might have made his eyes a little bigger but it’s pretty close

  • @[email protected]
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    369 hours 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”. ;-)

  • Hal-5700X
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    Looks like it was a bug. Because they’re still up.

    • southsamurai
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      Like others have said elsewhere, it wasn’t a bug, per se. More that someone fucked up and the tools they use to mass ban subreddits weren’t used correctly.

      Which, I ain’t up on that stuff, but it makes sense.

  • @[email protected]
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    they’re also targeting those with anti Fascist opinions and eliminating them from the site. by reporting them for hate speech and anti anything they can come up with. both the Mods and admins seem more than willing to help.

    • GodlessCommie
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      129 hours ago

      My previous 15yo account was banned with no warning for saying Palestinians have a right to defend themselves at any cost. I never had so much as a post removed or warning from admins. And it left my largest subs unmoderated and now they returned to shit

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    2210 hours ago

    Remember during next pride month, when they change their X picture on western accounts, that at the end of the day most companies will kill without discrimination for a fiver.

    • @[email protected]
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      67 hours ago

      What do you bet they don’t even do that anymore?

      $5 says almost no company does even the most perfunctory rainbow capitalism avatar changes this year, because, well, that’d be DEI or woke or someshit.

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    Does that mean we’re going to get an influx of people from those communities on lemmy? They’re welcome. Especially if they post in both…

    But in all seriousness, yes it’s politically motivated.

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

  • @[email protected]
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    2411 hours ago

    Reddit, Meta, Twitter, the list goes on… if you’re still using the services provided by the nazis in any capacity, you are perpetuating the continued relevance and power of a nazi machine. The end.

    You need it to stay in touch with friends and family? Bullshit. These apps have been around for 10-20 years, friends and families have been around for hundreds of thousands of years. You just like the convenience.

    You need it to stay informed? Bullshit. The info is out there and easy to find, don’t be so lazy that you need to be spoonfed information by the same 3 bookmarks in your browser. They’re deciding for you what you can and can’t read about, and spoon feeding you propaganda as well.

    If you are a truly principled person that sees all this for what it is, you will disconnect yourself from these things and encourage everyone you care about to do the same any time it comes up.

    Otherwise you’re just making excuses and assisting our decline.

    • @[email protected]
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      34 hours ago

      Reddit just has more hobbyist shit than anywhere else rnow, hoping ppl realize the sites garbage and provides nothing that lemmy cant without ads and garbage mods

    • @[email protected]
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      57 hours ago

      I’d be a little nicer: there’s at least one if not two generations now who have never communicated outside of these walled gardens.

      Like, I’m entirely certain some of my niblings have no fucking clue what a text message is, since they grew up on snapchat and whatsapp and facebook messenger.

      Perhaps a reasonable outreach that’s not just ‘u suck for using nazi shit!’ (which uh, I do agree with) might be a little more useful in capturing anyone under the age of like, 30.

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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.

    • darreninthenet
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      97 hours ago

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

      • @[email protected]
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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.

        • @[email protected]
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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.

          • Glitterkoe
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            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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        614 hours ago

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

        • @[email protected]
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          3814 hours 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

            • @[email protected]
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              511 hours 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.

        • @[email protected]
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          1114 hours 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.

      • @[email protected]
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        312 hours ago

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

        • @[email protected]
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          612 hours 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.

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      29 hours ago

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

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      Maybe testing the waters. Next time it will be a bug so severe that they can’t bring them back, but making new ones isn’t allowed either.

      • @[email protected]
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        1412 hours ago

        Knowing current Reddit, that’s quite possible. Though I’d love to see a migration through LemmyNSFW if that happens again permanently.