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Reddit purges all NSFW subreddits (pawb.social)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by amju_wolf@pawb.social to c/reddit@lemmy.ml
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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.

Edit: seems to have been a bug in automation (thanks @lefty7283@lemmy.world):

https://old.reddit.com/r/ModSupport/comments/1ii67mt/_/mb3fewv

It's still a good reminder on how quickly a community (or communities) thousands of people enjoy and in some cases rely upon can disappear.

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[-] shekau@lemmy.today 15 points 18 hours ago

Thats actually very good advertisement for Lemmy done by reddit. Very good news tbh.

[-] FreakinSteve@lemmy.world 17 points 19 hours ago

This is hilarious. There's no other reason to have Reddit

[-] fmtx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 51 points 1 day 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.
[-] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 20 points 23 hours 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...

[-] Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)
[-] vertis@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago

I don't think this is really tinfoil hat. I'd like to see they explain how it just happened to remove that subset and not other things.

[-] DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world 7 points 22 hours ago

r/nsfw is still around https://www.reddit.com/r/nsfw/

as well as a subreddit I created:

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldpolitics4/

[-] formation@lemm.ee 2 points 16 hours ago

They're all there for me? (I'm in spain)

[-] Eddbopkins@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day 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.world 8 points 1 day ago

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

[-] Eyedust@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 day ago

Good news to me. I can watch reddit and twitter self destruct from the comfort of the Fediverse. Welcome home, fellow refugees.

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[-] mo_lave@reddthat.com 51 points 1 day 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.org 6 points 22 hours 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.

[-] sheetzoos@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago

First they came for the NSFW, and I did not speak out—because I was not NSFW.

[-] Shape4985@lemmy.ml 146 points 1 day ago

Remember when tumblr got rid of porn and everyone stopped using it.

[-] JDPoZ@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago

Reminds me of an old favorite CollegeHumor video comedy skit series - "A Message From Your Favorite CEO" featuring the Tumblr CEO...

[-] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 2 points 23 hours ago

Miss that series so much

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[-] skozzii@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 day ago

I welcome all the porn y'all want to post ....

[-] inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 201 points 1 day ago

r/transgender_surgeries wasn't porn. It was a community outlet for results so people could understand what to expect. Queer folk always get swept up with porn, cishet only see us as a "kink" and assume our existence is entirely sexual.

It's fucking infuriating.

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 3 points 1 day ago

You... see who's in charge, right? Republicans always target LGBTQ+ folks for "pornographic" violations.

[-] dumples@midwest.social 94 points 1 day ago

Queer folk always get swept up with porn, cishet only see us as a “kink” and assume our existence is entirely sexual.

This is the whole point of these porn bans is to remove queer people from the internet. The porn cover just allows it to happen. So whenever you see anything about porn bans think queer ban first and then some porn removal that comes right back

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[-] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago

According to a post from our Admin, in the small instance I'm in there has been a sudden influx of new users (about 200) in the last day or so (as new users have to be approved, somebody is getting cramps on their approve finger).

(Guess Anarchism and Piracy could technically count as NSFW in most workplaces, especially the latter)

[-] whytho@lemm.ee 27 points 1 day ago

this was literally why i still kinda used reddit. welp hello lemmynsfw!

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 103 points 1 day ago

in other news, lemmy's NSFW instances see an influx of users

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[-] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 270 points 2 days ago

Man, I hope lemmynsfw is ready, lol

[-] Wxnzxn@lemmy.ml 142 points 1 day ago

As a quick reminder: don't expect them to handle your load (lol) for free. If you are a gooner/goonette with some income, leave a tip for the server costs and consider volunteering for mod duties if you have time and some internet social skills. If you value your nsfw communities, they don't exist without work, like any other community.

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[-] hmmm@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago

Let's goon

[-] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.ml 1 points 18 hours ago

Well now is the time to step up and moderate those orphaned porn sites.

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 154 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Unironically devastating for Reddit financially and could see a gooner exodus to Lemmy.

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[-] superkret@feddit.org 37 points 1 day ago

OK but how the FUCK did r/forcedcreampie survive the purge?

[-] Tuxman@sh.itjust.works 54 points 1 day ago

Under the New Founding Fathers, forced cream pies are ok, willing abortions are not.

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