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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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[–] 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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