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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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[–] Shape4985@lemmy.ml 13 points 45 minutes ago

Remember when tumblr got rid of porn and everyone stopped using it.

[–] hector@sh.itjust.works 4 points 19 minutes ago* (last edited 16 minutes ago) (1 children)

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)

[–] delgato@sh.itjust.works 2 points 13 minutes ago (1 children)

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.

[–] hector@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 minutes ago

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)

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 56 minutes ago* (last edited 55 minutes ago)

Overwatch r34 ban

So you have chosen death by a thousand exoduses

[–] superkret@feddit.org 6 points 45 minutes ago

OK but how the FUCK did r/forcedcreampie survive the purge?

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.ml 5 points 44 minutes ago* (last edited 44 minutes ago)

Just following in Tumblr's footsteps. They have to sanitize it to fully monetize it.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 46 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

in other news, lemmy's NSFW instances see an influx of users

[–] Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf 7 points 40 minutes ago (1 children)
[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 minutes ago

hello and welcome!

this cesspit is less bad!

[–] Hillmarsh@lemm.ee 2 points 27 minutes ago

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?

[–] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 2 points 29 minutes ago* (last edited 29 minutes ago)

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.

[–] NostraDavid@programming.dev 3 points 55 minutes ago

Reason is always “unmoderated” despite some of the banned subreddits being fully moderated.

Well, that's a lie, because /r/programming still has mods. Pretty sure they did nothing in the last 10 years. I guess it's because the sub wasn't NSFW, I guess.

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.ml 2 points 42 minutes ago

Wait until they find out that conservatives also jerk off

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 14 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

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.

[–] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 5 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

the tumblr one is so funny because yahoo promised not to screw it up and then they did

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 minutes ago

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.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 4 points 59 minutes ago (2 children)

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

[–] straightjorkin@lemmy.world 1 points 14 minutes ago

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.

[–] alekwithak@lemmy.world 2 points 38 minutes ago

Right, but they purged all the old stuff :'(

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.ml 1 points 43 minutes ago

What would be left if onlyfans got rid of porn? Wtf. I'm not paying to watch someone fix rust on their car.

[–] Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world 8 points 2 hours ago

Lol RIP reddit

[–] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Omg drugs.

Old mother Elon

and his crew

Took away

from me and you

He better go far away

he better go far away

https://youtu.be/wSBpl_N8hFc

[–] inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 119 points 5 hours ago (12 children)

r/transgender_surgeries wasn't porn. It was a community outlet for results so people could understand what to expect. Queer folk always get swept up with porn, cishet only see us as a "kink" and assume our existence is entirely sexual.

It's fucking infuriating.

[–] dontbelasagne@lemmy.world 5 points 53 minutes ago

It's a shame. I'm not trans. I'm a cis male and I have no desire to be female. But I live in a very trans friendly community and as such I have many trans friends and they need outlets. I joined a meetup group which inadvertly became a trans safe space (original topic was anime) and many trans people just joined as it was the one space where they weren't judged. We just did it in the way of anime, like their only safe space is something not trans releated and this is despite living in a friendly city. I will be an ally to all my trans friends and support them in this time of need.

[–] dumples@midwest.social 56 points 4 hours ago (5 children)

Queer folk always get swept up with porn, cishet only see us as a “kink” and assume our existence is entirely sexual.

This is the whole point of these porn bans is to remove queer people from the internet. The porn cover just allows it to happen. So whenever you see anything about porn bans think queer ban first and then some porn removal that comes right back

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 1 points 52 minutes ago* (last edited 52 minutes ago)

The old ass fascists trying to hold together their plutocracy suppress anything that goes against their patriarchal values.

Even looking at it as a fetish, trans porn has been skyrocketing in popularity

https://www.pornhub.com/insights/transgender-searches

And this terrifies right wingers

The current patriarchy sees non-binary people as a threat to their heirachies. If the line between man and woman gets blurred then we start questioning why we aren't all actually equal, and that leads to us removing them from power.

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[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 38 points 4 hours ago (6 children)

The subs are back up for the record. According to an admin, it was a glitch.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 minutes ago

Uh huh. Like the glitch that put T_D on the front page - the entire front page.

One of those funny coincidences that keeps happening.

[–] Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world 19 points 2 hours ago

😂 like that Facebook "glitch" that banned any inclusive terms and force-followed Trump on people's profiles? Lol these fuckers

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Lmao, somebody said to do it and got called on the carpet by their shareholders.

[–] almost1337@lemm.ee 29 points 4 hours ago (14 children)

The glitch being they got caught and people complained

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 12 points 3 hours ago

How were they ever not getting "caught" lol

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