If I had to guess, they are testing the ability to switch these off in anticipation of more Trumpian laws being passed
Comment on Reddit is purging NSFW subs as well as trans-related subreddits
sajhino@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
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.
darreninthenet@lemmy.sdf.org 4 hours ago
Petter1@lemm.ee 11 hours ago
That is good news for my nsfwlemmy.com alt 😏😆
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Don’t be a coward, jerk off on your main and your alt!
Arkouda@lemmy.ca 11 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@lemmy.world [bot] 9 hours ago
And it’s pretty wild when trying to scroll anything in public or with people nearby.
Petter1@lemm.ee 11 hours ago
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.
stoy@lemmy.zip 9 hours ago
Fine, I’ll get an NSFW alt…
Fizz@lemmy.nz 9 hours ago
How is nsfw Lemmy doing for hosting costs? Seems like it would be expensive to maintain all the images.
orclev@lemmy.world 8 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.
stoy@lemmy.zip 9 hours ago
The reaction was the bug.
Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 hours ago
Testing a new AI moderator in production, I’d wager.
asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 5 hours ago
Like Facebook?
danc4498@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
They get all the nsfw traffic for the full quarter, and use that for their earnings report. Pretty damn dishonest.
alexc@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
The kind where they were getting ready to do it, and then pulled the trigger early
db2@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
They clearly have a list.
AbidanYre@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
How’d that work out for tumblr?
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 11 hours ago
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.
scarabic@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
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. Please nobody lecture me here - I’m active on Lemmy and moderate some subs, but 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.
Glitterkoe@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
But in the end it’s just as with email: providers, spam filters and clients. Some providers have stricter spam filters (~federation), some might prefer another client. Has there been any significant reason to deviate from that terminology?
Meaningful discovery is a major issue in adoption, though. Pro: no search/discovery algorithm that serves some evil plan of world enshittification. Con: no search/discovery algorithm.
SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 hours ago
Just thinking the same thing. I wonder if this gets reversed or not.