2d ago

Reddit is purging NSFW subs as well as trans-related subreddits (edit: bans are being undone)

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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 are banned too. Definitely feels politically motivated. Edit 2: seems like at least some (?) bans are being undone, like the above mentioned ones.

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1d ago

Reddit is purging NSFW subs as well as trans-related subreddits

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For sure, I've always said that for the most part it doesn't really matter. Make an account on anyone of them and if you don't align with that instance in the long run you can just hop to a different one.
- People like having long account ages.
  
  Sure, and nothing prevents you from signing up to multiple of them.
  
  But you must understand that there are a potentially infinite number of instances and people have limited time to sign up for them.
  So they pick one, or two, or three, that seem okay.
  Then one turns out to be ran by a pedophile, so they stop using that one.
  Then one turns out to be a front for tankies, so they stop using that one.
  Then one turns out to [insert valid criticism of a popular instance], so they are back to account age 0 and searching for a new instance.
  In the old Reddit days you'd never lose your account (or have reason to abandon it) unless you were a nazi or pedophile. I had a twelve year old account banned because someone mass reported all of my (porn) posts, many were auto-actioned, and my appeals were all auto-denied.
  
  Replace the word porn with "for literally no reason that a human would see" and your story is my story.
  
  I guess they had to make more room on their servers for bots and morons.
  
  Well, their loss. I was in the top 1% of reddit karma for 2022. Think of how much engagement is being lost by me simply not being there. And engagement is what drives their platforms metrics.
  It always seemed fishy that they offered to let me buy the innitial stock options pre-launch, at $30 per share. But at the time I was dealing with cancer, and had $0 income. So I had to decline. A few after the IPO launches I'm suddenly banned by an automod, with all repeals also being done by an auto mod that claims it was a human the reviewed the appeal. It clearly wasn't.
  
  Weird; very similar story to mine.
  
  The auto ban? The stocks? Or the cancer?
  .......or all of it?
  
  Ah jeeze I was walking my dog and missed the cancer part. Sorry to hear you had to go through that and I hope it's gone for good.
  Everything else though, spot on.
  
  Well now we need to see pictures of your dog! Hopefully you got him some of those dog boots so his feet aren't cold in the snow.
  
  Yeah I get it, my age old account is now abandoned because Reddit decided to fuck up. Guess what instance I hopped to to view Reddit? None, because Reddit is not decentralized.
  
  I guess the equivalent would be creating a new account on reddit.com, as opposed to lemmy.world vs lemmy.ml etc.
  Anyway, I obviously agree with your decision or I wouldn't be here. I'm just telling you most people do not feel that way.
  
  I guess the equivalent would be creating a new account on reddit.com
  I think that's called stockholm syndrome
  I'm kidding, because I felt the same when I was new here. Account age and karma are treated like valuable currency over there, glad that's not a thing on lemmy, and for good reason.
  
  Yet.
- I did the hop for mastodon but that was mostly because I learned an instance can set a higher character limit and I absolutely hate fucking threads of tweets.

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