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Reddit purges all NSFW subreddits (thelemmy.club)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by 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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[–] 158 points 2 years ago* (31 children)

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

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  • [–] 72 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    As far as I remember they weren't monetizing NSFW subs, so I guess their reasoning is that banning them reduces server costs while not impacting their ads revenue.

    Now what will be interesting is to see how much of Reddit's userbase was there at least partly for the porn, and how many users will leave Reddit altogether because of this move

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    I'm curious if the pro bono porn increased the traffic for the monetizes subreddits. So this might lead to a gross loss instead of pure savings from the server costs.

    Anyhow. R/all is among the worse places on the internet. It can get fucked.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago (13 children)

    Man, like I'll welcome new people, but I don't want all flooded with porn. I already had to block a bunch of communities/ profiles, and I'll have to work more to fix my feed. Having said that

    Give me your tired, your goons, Your huddled masses yearning to goon free, I guess.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    Try jerboa, you can just block the nsfw instance instead of doing it piecemeal. Total game changer. (Some of the other apps probably have this functionality but I don't know which.)

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    You can also pick an instance defederated from porn.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    I didn't want other NSFW stuff blocked, just porn. When I was originally signing up it seemed like NSFW was being treated as an all or nothing for most instances. Idk if it's changed or if I just needed to look harder.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    What's an example of NSFW that you want to see that is banned by instances banning porn? Which instances are you referring to?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Idk it was like 2 years ago. I just remember looking through fediverse guides and instances were labeled as either allowing NSFW content or not, no nuance. I didn't dig into whether the specific instances were defederated from lemmynsfw nor did I even know to look for that at the time.

    There's not that much NSFW stuff that isn't porn but I come across it occasionally. Usually jokes, sometimes people will also be very cautious and mark shit that isn't really. I prefer to be largely unconstrained with what comes across my feed, just don't care for the random puss intermingled.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    I do this in sync as it is. Just saying if a shitload of reddit refugees come here and my feed becomes 90% full of porn, I'll likely have a few more to ban.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    As far as I can tell, you can only block communities in sync which is why you're having to do it one by one. Jerboa you can just block the whole NSFW instance, one and done.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    I can block instances. It's really not that big of a deal. Just pointing out that an influx like that, I'm sure would bring more instances, and more stuff I wouldn't want in my feed I'd have to block.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    think programming.dev blocks nsfw and political stuff

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    I'm not an admin or anything, but there was a recent meta post about this topic. A lot of NSFW and political stuff is restricted but not blocked. All that means is that it won't show in any feed unless you actually subscribe to the community. If you subscribe it will show in the all-feed like normal. I think it's a good middle ground.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (12 children)

    I'm against the ban, but I also don't want that gooning here. Although that's what drives like half of the internet so maybe it's a good thing for the fediverse.

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  • [–] 34 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    It'll be constrained to pro-gooning instances, most seem to be defederated from porn but the influx of users in general will spill over to the non-gooning instances.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Like - a lot of Reddit users seemed to have accounts specifically to interact with porn, I think that transfers well into the Fediverse, you just get your porn account on an instance that is federated with the porn ones.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago

    Yep, and that will have spillover. There isn't going to be an increase in porn on non-porn instances, but the growth of porn instances will increase general users, though not at a 1 to 1 rate.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Many technologies lived and died based on what the gooners chose, e.g. VHS vs betamax. I welcome them

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    As a horny pedant I need to tell you that's not why Betamax failed.

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