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Reddit purges all NSFW subreddits (pawb.social)
submitted 1 day 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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[-] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 8 points 2 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...

[-] DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour 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/

[-] fmtx 33 points 4 hours 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.
[-] Anarki_ 14 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)
[-] vertis@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 hours 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.

[-] Eddbopkins@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours 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 4 points 4 hours ago

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

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 hours 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)

[-] hmmm@sh.itjust.works 5 points 7 hours ago

Let's goon

[-] Eyedust@sh.itjust.works 14 points 9 hours ago

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

[-] khaleer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 hours ago

They would rather hop into another corpo boat instead of choosing an instance.

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 hours ago

Some would, some would rather go to Lemmy.

[-] skozzii@lemmy.ca 27 points 12 hours ago

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

[-] mo_lave@reddthat.com 48 points 14 hours 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 2 points 1 hour 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 31 points 14 hours ago

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

[-] whytho@lemm.ee 24 points 15 hours ago

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

[-] Shape4985@lemmy.ml 134 points 21 hours ago

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

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