this post was submitted on 05 Feb 2025
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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 64 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] JDPoZ@lemmy.world 14 points 2 hours ago

Reminds me of an old favorite CollegeHumor video comedy skit series - "A Message From Your Favorite CEO" featuring the Tumblr CEO...

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[–] hector@sh.itjust.works 18 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours 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 10 points 3 hours ago (2 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.

[–] dilroopgill@lemmy.world 1 points 52 minutes ago

I learned so much off ppl tweaking off taking too much, life saver for sure.

[–] hector@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 hours 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)

[–] superkret@feddit.org 22 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Tuxman@sh.itjust.works 28 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Under the New Founding Fathers, forced cream pies are ok, willing abortions are not.

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

New Founding Fathers sounds too distinguished. I vote for Foundling Man-babies.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 67 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] dilroopgill@lemmy.world 1 points 51 minutes ago (1 children)

Dont they have to wait like 2 weeks tho to post images or is that just some instances

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 points 16 minutes ago

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.

[–] Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf 17 points 3 hours ago (2 children)
[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 hours ago
[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

hello and welcome!

this cesspit is less bad!

[–] Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf 6 points 2 hours ago (2 children)
[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 3 points 55 minutes ago

hopefully the fact lemmy is more decentralized should avoid another digg or reddit situation

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

With Mark Blue flowers and Steven Davis? Wait! Its coming back to me!

Kevin Rose and the other guy who was chunky!

[–] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 11 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] __nobodynowhere@sh.itjust.works 1 points 42 minutes ago

No porn. No weed.

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Overwatch r34 ban

So you have chosen death by a thousand exoduses

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

Hmm, delicious pasteurised reddit.

[–] Hillmarsh@lemm.ee 6 points 3 hours 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?

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 21 points 5 hours ago (3 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 9 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours 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 3 points 3 hours 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.

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[–] NostraDavid@programming.dev 6 points 4 hours 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.

[–] inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 142 points 8 hours ago (15 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 10 points 4 hours 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 66 points 7 hours ago (6 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 7 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] dumples@midwest.social 6 points 2 hours ago

Really anything that shows or hints that any part of their "natural" order is something created. Gender is a big one but anything

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[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 hours ago

Wait until they find out that conservatives also jerk off

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