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.

  • @sajhino
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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.

    • @danc4498
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      They get all the nsfw traffic for the full quarter, and use that for their earnings report. Pretty damn dishonest.

    • @AbidanYre
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      How’d that work out for tumblr?

      • @[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.

        • @scarabic
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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.

      • Jessica
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        57 hours ago

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

      • @Warl0k3
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        Don’t be a coward, jerk off on your main and your alt!

        • @[email protected]
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          287 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

          • @devfuuu
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            And it’s pretty wild when trying to scroll anything in public or with people nearby.

            • @[email protected]
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              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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          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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        15 hours ago

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

        • @orclev
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          24 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.

    • @alexc
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      The kind where they were getting ready to do it, and then pulled the trigger early

      • @db2
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        They clearly have a list.