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Reddit purges all NSFW subreddits
(pawb.social)
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.
Same, when I was a teenager it was Erowid for all my questions, then r/drugs in college. I also loved r/tooktoomuch, which had the best life lessons to offer.
havent heard of 'Erowid' in a minute. Great memories back then, simpler times
Is erowid still good? I have it enshrined in the back of my head as the place for plant info
Erowid is still good, though I wish there was a little more info about current operations and projects outside of maintaining the experience report database. As far as I can tell, both Erowid Monthly and Erowid Extracts are dead, Ask Erowid is dead, DrugsData is not currently receiving samples, etc.
There's reason to play some stuff close to the chest, obviously, but there used to be more activity than just the experience database, and it's sad to see the other functions languish. But as a repository of drug information it's still pretty great.
A newer good harm reduction/info site is tripsit.me, which also has a trip sit via chat service. Can't speak to the quality of the chat service, over something like the Fireside Project which has been around for a while now, but the infosheets on tripsit are pretty good.
Edit: Ugh, going through the other Erowid sections again...beginning to think I need to step up and see if they want more volunteers. Lots of dead links where Wayback can probably help a ton, the Character vault can probably be expanded quite a bit, etc. But this all might just be the focus moving on a bit. I just wanted to see Ralph Metzner's blog, since you hear so much about Tim Leary and Ram Dass but Metzner was right there with 'em.
Erowid is used by researchers still AFAIK. Notably on MDMA research (they teamed up with MAPS).
https://www.erowid.org/references/refs.php?C=MDMA%2F
Here's one using it from last year: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39712538/
I learned all the thing that kept me safe on there too; and the life story were interesting and also the trip reports and experiment!
This was something I couldn't get IRL until a long time, and still, is not very active today (my friends and I are all busy we can't really experiment !! Maybe next time we see each other)
I learned so much off ppl tweaking off taking too much, life saver for sure.