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.

  • fmtx@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    18 days ago

    I see they’re following the Tumblr model:

    • Get bought at overinflated values.
    • Ban all NSFW content.
    • Users leave and seek NSFW content elsewhere.
    • Valuation plummets.
    • “Actually, moderating NSFW is really hard you guys. We’re just going to try best efforts moderation only.”
    • Sell at near total loss.
    • There is still NSFW content on the platform, and the policy is used as a cudgel against LGBTQ accounts.
  • molave@reddthat.com
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    18 days ago

    I don’t care about NSFW subs per se, but they’re useful canaries in the coal mine. If they’re gone gone, it’s a fine indicator of what’s about to come next.

    • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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      17 days ago

      No, your canaries are already long dead. It’s long been a process when Reddit admins don’t want a sub to exist but it isn’t actually breaking any rules to laser focus on the moderators, ban them the moment they have an excuse, immediately ban the sub for being unmoderated, refuse to give it to a new mod via reddit request and ban any replacement subs for recreating a banned sub. Hell, r/GamingCircleJerk has been laughing about some right wing gaming memes sub having that done to it just a few weeks ago.

      They only care about it not looking like they are just nuking subs they don’t like is because they don’t want to scare off other users who might get antsy about having a community under those sorts of capricious admins.

      This sounds a lot like an automation of that process that misfired. That they were all specifically banned for being “unmoderated” is what jumps out to me as telling.

  • Eddbopkins@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    Reddit is run by big business and greedy corporate America. When it went public for the stock price to make even more money then it did before, I left that place.

  • glitchdx@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    18 days ago

    Did they? I just looked and my porn multi is still full of everything I expect it to be.

  • Phoenicianpirate@lemm.eeEnglish
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    17 days ago

    You mean all my reddit porn is now gone?

    Fuck it. They all should migrate to Lemmy. There was some hard to find porn that I haven’t saved yet…

  • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
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    18 days 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.

  • Hillmarsh@lemm.ee
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    18 days 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?

  • hector@sh.itjust.works
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    18 days ago

    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 :(

    • delgato@sh.itjust.works
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      18 days ago

      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
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        18 days 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)

      • codenul@lemmy.ml
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        18 days ago

        havent heard of ‘Erowid’ in a minute. Great memories back then, simpler times

        • Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works
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          18 days ago

          Erowid is still good, though I wish there was a little more info about current operations and projects outside of maintaining the experience report database. As far as I can tell, both Erowid Monthly and Erowid Extracts are dead, Ask Erowid is dead, DrugsData is not currently receiving samples, etc.

          There’s reason to play some stuff close to the chest, obviously, but there used to be more activity than just the experience database, and it’s sad to see the other functions languish. But as a repository of drug information it’s still pretty great.

          A newer good harm reduction/info site is tripsit.me, which also has a trip sit via chat service. Can’t speak to the quality of the chat service, over something like the Fireside Project which has been around for a while now, but the infosheets on tripsit are pretty good.

          Edit: Ugh, going through the other Erowid sections again…beginning to think I need to step up and see if they want more volunteers. Lots of dead links where Wayback can probably help a ton, the Character vault can probably be expanded quite a bit, etc. But this all might just be the focus moving on a bit. I just wanted to see Ralph Metzer’s blog, since you hear so much about Tim Leary and Ram Dass but Metzer was right there with 'em.

  • misterhuh@lemmy.ml
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    18 days ago

    They have been coming back. /drugs being one that is back. Don’t know wtf happened, but glad I’m here.