mac comments on Reddit Communities Switching to NSFW as a Form of Protest

[–] mac@kbin.social 9 points 3 years ago (5 children)

Maybe I'm misunderstanding this, but with subreddits going NSFW, it means that the content won't be displayed in 3p apps only? Seems like this will help push users to the official app?

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[–] McBinary@kbin.social 43 points 3 years ago (1 child)

The way I understand it, is that advertising money is not put into NSFW content on the site, so by making every big sub NSFW they are effectively punching reddit in the wallet and trying to make their IPO fail.

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[–] dismalnow@kbin.social 13 points 3 years ago

@McBinary

@ulu_mulu @mac

Additionally the only requirement to view nsfw stuff is that they can validate that your account has opted in to viewing it.

3p apps will see it if you're signed in.

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[–] ulu_mulu@lemmy.world [S] 16 points 3 years ago

Not yet, it's the API change that will remove NSFW content from 3rd party apps starting July 1st, but apps will be dead anyway.

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[–] LimitedWard@lemmy.world 6 points 3 years ago

It's supposed to make the site less desirable to advertisers. Reddit has continually restricted more and more of its nsfw content over the years in an attempt to appease advertisers, so this is a... provocative step in the opposite direction.

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[–] exohuman@fedi196.gay 2 points 3 years ago

@mac

@ulu_mulu

If the apps still exists (which they won’t) they won’t see NSFW content. Since the subreddits are flooded with porn, only the 3rd party app will have those filtered out and see the actual content of the subreddit without wading through pages and pages of porn.

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