Submitted 6 hours ago by cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com to technology@lemmy.world
cross-posted from: 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.
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.
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.
They’ll reverse the X ban any second now.
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…
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.
They get all the nsfw traffic for the full quarter, and use that for their earnings report. Pretty damn dishonest.
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.
Just thinking the same thing. I wonder if this gets reversed or not.
The reaction was the bug.
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.
Testing a new AI moderator in production, I’d wager.
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.
Good, honestly. Let them scatter to other platforms. Reddit needs to shut down.
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?
It’s exactly what Elon did with banning people on Twitter.
Maybe testing to waters. Next time it will be a bug so severe that they can’t bring them back, but making new ones isn’t allowed.
Knowing current Reddit, that’s quite possible. Though I’d love to see a migration through LemmyNSFW if that happens again permanently.
Good. Let’s have people come here.
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!
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.
LTT had a few videos on degoogling your life. Provides some alternatives to each service.
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.
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
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.
last corporate own social media where a single entiry can remove anything for everybody*
I wasn’t super active (I created my account when they banned third party apps but the content wasn’t there yet).
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.
Ah the tumblr guide for how to kill your community.
Jokes aside that’s very sad and very worrying.
It looks like a lot of the subs mentioned in that post are back already. 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??
Every reddit user should consider r/redditseppuku
/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?
How about neither of them should be banned. Fuck this puritan BS
Do you know what /r/guro is? It’s sexualized gore.
njordomir@lemmy.world 5 minutes ago
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”. ;-)