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r/formula1 is reopening as NSFW to "comply to the fullest extent of our abilities with these changes":

Formula 1 is inherently dangerous. Crashes and injuries are not uncommon - some even with fatal results. These incidents are discussed on r/formula1, and videos, images and other media are posted following these events.

Formula 1 includes messaging and sponsors that are connected to alcohol, tobacco and gambling - all of which are legislatively prohibited or age restricted in various locations. We cannot prevent these from being displayed to underaged users, as they are incorporated in general Formula 1 imagery and content.

Formula 1 is known for, both in the past and today, to include certain risque imagery that fall within the NSFW space.

Reddit’s User Agreement states that “Children under the age of 13 are not allowed to create an Account or otherwise use the Services.” - As such it stands to reason that persons under legal age participate in r/formula1.

Switching our classification means Reddit’s age verification shields underage users from being exposed to content considered harmful.

One of the legal advice subs -- I can't remember which -- was going forward requiring post approval from mods because they value community safety. But as they are unpaid volunteers they estimate it could take up to 14 days for post approval.

Thank you for the rundown! It almost makes me want to go back and take a look at the shit show... But tis a silly place and I shant be going back.

/r/woodworking is debating going back to normal, or posting pictures of Norm Abrams and Nick Offerman. I'll let you guess which one is winning.

/r/Piracy also celebrated the fact that reddit officially endorsed them.

r/Wellthatsucks is now a subreddit about vacuum cleaners.

fucking lmao.

r/Nofans is now a passive PC cooler subreddit.

That should be a nice complement to r/onlyfans, which has previously refocused to pictures of fans (though it's still private)

Absolutely fucking glorious!

It makes me so happy seeing reddit come together against this bullshit

Shitposting is funny because the auto mod they are using to remove posts cites removing the post in order to save bandwidth for Reddit. The auto mod post is much longer than post being removed and contains K's. I found it funny anyway.

What are the admins going to do? Moderate? If the moderators are approving NSFW posts, the sub is NSFW... Heck I'm not sure if they have to go that far. On r/cigars every single post is NSFW because cigars are Satan. Just do that to all the subs so every single post requires you to click to reveal the NSFW content. It'll be like NSFW roulette. Heads, it's a helpful guide to setting up a service on the cloud. Tails, it's goatse.

That NSFW post on r/interestingasfuck has reached r/all lmfao

You're dead right. If $$$ are Spez's priority then that's what we should target. A knock on effect is that it catches the attention of the casual redditor. I have a couple friends who read reddit but were clueless on these issues. Until the NSFW content. One DM'd me tonight

""I was on lunch, and I was like "WTF happened to my reddit feed??""

so that's working

How's the writer's strike going anyways? Is there any updates about it?

He laughed and then tweeted some more source material for them to run with. He's loving this.

Upvoted even though I hate this comment

My friend is no longer using reddit because his front page is mostly porn now (and the default app sucks at hiding it). So I got him to switch to lemmy :)

But if anything, this is an even better protest. Much more effective and hard to deal with

If you want to see people really whine, just go on r/JustUnsubbed, you'll see a bunch of people moaning and groaning about this

Reminds me of the Sherlock Holmes movie

W: "Remove that stick from my face"

SH: "It's not in your face; it's in my hand"

W: "Okay, remove what's in your hand from my face"

It's funny for about 10 minutes, then you realize it's all John Oliver posts, and it might as well be a private sun again. It's working. Lots of my subs are also paralyzed by reddit news and spez being an asshole, so there's not top much going on for my subs, save for a select few, like some gardening ones. Haven't found a replacement yet for those :(

I've been going over and upvoting all this shit I can before my Joey app stops working. I am easily amused, "Well that sucks" has had me laughing every time it pops up.