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.

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

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23 points

RIP Aaron

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💐🪦 Rip Aaron

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

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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.)

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

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He looks like one of those rich kids who gets the shit beat out of him after pissing off the local Rednecks and Mexicans.

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4 points

Thank you. His face still looks very punchable.

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I don’t know is “webstie” is a typo or not, but it fits with the pig boy theme

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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.

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How’d that work out for tumblr?

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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.

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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.

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

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

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That is good news for my nsfwlemmy.com alt 😏😆

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How this is called that when “lemmygetnaked” would’ve been infinitely better I’ll never know…

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40 points

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

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48 points

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

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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.

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Fine, I’ll get an NSFW alt…

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

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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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14 points

The reaction was the bug.

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Testing a new AI moderator in production, I’d wager.

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1 point

Like Facebook?

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

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They clearly have a list.

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

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59 points

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”. ;-)

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I hope they are paying the hosting bill for all that media.

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39 points

Purging NSFW subs from Reddit? Will there even be anything left? lol

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Bots and conservatives, and conservative bots.

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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.

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

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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.

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