20h ago

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

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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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23h ago

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

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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.
- RIP Aaron
  
  💐🪦 Rip Aaron

Purging NSFW subs from Reddit? Will there even be anything left? lol
- 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.
- Bots and conservatives, and conservative bots.
- My thought exactly. Apparently people are using that stinky site for something that's not just porn?
  
  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.

- "I'm Steve Huffman, Chief Executive Ball Gargler of reddit. Elon loves me, no really!"
- 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.)
  
  I don't know is "webstie" is a typo or not, but it fits with the pig boy theme
  
  This is the original. It looks like they might have made his eyes a little bigger but it's pretty close

omg lemme servers. This is reddit DDOS attack on us.

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". ;-)

they're also targeting those with anti Fascist opinions and eliminating them from the site. by reporting them for hate speech and anti anything they can come up with. both the Mods and admins seem more than willing to help.
- My previous 15yo account was banned with no warning for saying Palestinians have a right to defend themselves at any cost. I never had so much as a post removed or warning from admins. And it left my largest subs unmoderated and now they returned to shit

Looks like it was a bug. Because they're still up.
- Like others have said elsewhere, it wasn't a bug, per se. More that someone fucked up and the tools they use to mass ban subreddits weren't used correctly.
  Which, I ain't up on that stuff, but it makes sense.

Remember during next pride month, when they change their X picture on western accounts, that at the end of the day most companies will kill without discrimination for a fiver.
- What do you bet they don't even do that anymore?
  $5 says almost no company does even the most perfunctory rainbow capitalism avatar changes this year, because, well, that'd be DEI or woke or someshit.

Does that mean we're going to get an influx of people from those communities on lemmy? They're welcome. Especially if they post in both...
But in all seriousness, yes it's politically motivated.

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.
- If I had to guess, they are testing the ability to switch these off in anticipation of more Trumpian laws being passed
- How'd that work out for tumblr?
  
  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.
  
  Just thinking the same thing. I wonder if this gets reversed or not.
- That is good news for my nsfwlemmy.com alt 😏😆
  
  Don't be a coward, jerk off on your main and your alt!
  
  Fine, I'll get an NSFW alt...
  
  How is nsfw Lemmy doing for hosting costs? Seems like it would be expensive to maintain all the images.
- The reaction was the bug.
- Testing a new AI moderator in production, I’d wager.
  
  Like Facebook?
- They get all the nsfw traffic for the full quarter, and use that for their earnings report. Pretty damn dishonest.
- The kind where they were getting ready to do it, and then pulled the trigger early
  
  They clearly have a list.

Reddit, Meta, Twitter, the list goes on.... if you're still using the services provided by the nazis in any capacity, you are perpetuating the continued relevance and power of a nazi machine. The end.
You need it to stay in touch with friends and family? Bullshit. These apps have been around for 10-20 years, friends and families have been around for hundreds of thousands of years. You just like the convenience.
You need it to stay informed? Bullshit. The info is out there and easy to find, don't be so lazy that you need to be spoonfed information by the same 3 bookmarks in your browser. They're deciding for you what you can and can't read about, and spoon feeding you propaganda as well.
If you are a truly principled person that sees all this for what it is, you will disconnect yourself from these things and encourage everyone you care about to do the same any time it comes up.
Otherwise you're just making excuses and assisting our decline.
- Reddit just has more hobbyist shit than anywhere else rnow, hoping ppl realize the sites garbage and provides nothing that lemmy cant without ads and garbage mods
- I'd be a little nicer: there's at least one if not two generations now who have never communicated outside of these walled gardens.
  Like, I'm entirely certain some of my niblings have no fucking clue what a text message is, since they grew up on snapchat and whatsapp and facebook messenger.
  Perhaps a reasonable outreach that's not just 'u suck for using nazi shit!' (which uh, I do agree with) might be a little more useful in capturing anyone under the age of like, 30.
  
  Fair enough. That doesn't excuse the hundreds of millions old enough to know better.

Wow... is everything aligned... are there USA laws pushing this or something? Despicable pieces of shit

Anyone who didn't see this coming a mile away hasn't been paying attention.

Now they say it was a bug? How that works?
- Maybe testing the waters. Next time it will be a bug so severe that they can't bring them back, but making new ones isn't allowed either.
  
  Knowing current Reddit, that's quite possible. Though I'd love to see a migration through LemmyNSFW if that happens again permanently.
- It’s exactly what Elon did with banning people on Twitter.

Let's go recommend Lemmy to them!!!
- I saw one thread where lemmy was being recommended and some people were on board with moving over, so that was nice to see.
- I do it by posting r/lemmy. I figured mods are less likely to delete the comment if it’s a subreddit.

I’d stopped using the platform a while ago and went full Lemmy, but this was the push I needed to delete that shit out of my life. Just need to figure out Google and Apple next, they’ve got me by the balls with those services!
- LTT had a few videos on degoogling your life. Provides some alternatives to each service.
  
  You lost me at LTT
- The push you needed was the removal of a bunch of porn? What's wrong with you, gooner?
  
  I’m gonna assume you ignored the part about trans-related subreddits or you just don’t care in which case, I don’t care about your opinions.

Just checked and all these supposedly "banned" subs are up and running.

They'll reverse the X ban any second now.

Good, honestly. Let them scatter to other platforms. Reddit needs to shut down.

Certainly expected. It was my last social media (apart from Bluesky). I can't endorse this as a trans man. Time to be more active on Lemmy and purge my Reddit account.
- Hu? you are here? Aren’t you?
  
  Idk if this distinction works for anyone else, but in my mind places like Reddit or Lemmy aren’t the same thing as “social media” because they maintained the anonymous forum structure. The activity on the site isn’t centered around people and personalities, it’s the content being discussed.
  
  I wasn’t super active (I created my account when they banned third party apps but the content wasn’t there yet).
  
  last corporate own social media where a single entiry can remove anything for everybody*

People were predicting this a while back as a way that reddit would make themselves more "advertiser-friendly".
I also wonder if there were some legal concerns in those states that now require porn sites to check IDs.

I feel like this is the perfect time for the return of a certain Fawkcian group.

Ah the tumblr guide for how to kill your community.
Jokes aside that's very sad and very worrying.

This is the opportunity the Fediverse was waiting for.
- Where would one go if this place turns int reddit 2?
  
  This place is setup kind of different.
  If an instance starts becoming fascist the other instances can block it for all the users in their instance
  
  Lenny, then leooy, then leppy etc

Good. Let's have people come here.

Every reddit user should consider r/redditseppuku
- reddit suicide?

It looks like a lot of the subs mentioned in that post are back already, including the ones mentioned in the post tile. While i completely agree that reddit is a shitstain, this may have been a bug?
- It's a very strange coincidence that these are the subreddits that are suddenly experiencing a "bug".
- More like cover for banning certain subs.
- Strange, same bug as in meta, hmmm! Are they preparing something and went live too early??
  Big firewall of US incoming??

/r/rule34 is banned, meanwhile /r/guro is still up. Wtf is wrong with reddit? That's the one sub I actually think should be banned, why ban the rule34?
- Just checked that subreddit out. Seems like the perfect place for necrophiles. That is just disgusting to look at. Though I don't think it is something that should be removed.
- How about neither of them should be banned. Fuck this puritan BS
  
  Do you know what /r/guro is? It's sexualized gore.

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