this post was submitted on 05 Feb 2025
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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 @[email protected]):

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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 34 minutes ago

that's funny because I was banned for saying fireworks in Brampton Ontario

[–] [email protected] 3 points 41 minutes ago* (last edited 40 minutes ago) (1 children)

Lol they still didn't ban r/piracy?

That's so surprising, I thought it would be one of the first ones to go...

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 33 minutes ago

Since when is drinking rum, singing sea shanties, and downloading content hidden behind a monthly subscription in 4k illegal?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 52 minutes ago (1 children)

And nothing of value was lost

[–] [email protected] 1 points 32 minutes ago

Many of these subreddits were not straight up porn. But then again, it is Reddit, should nuke the site altogether.

[–] [email protected] 83 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 hours ago

Reminds me of an old favorite CollegeHumor video comedy skit series - "A Message From Your Favorite CEO" featuring the Tumblr CEO...

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

r/drugs has been banned?? That was one of my favorite place on Reddit back in the days :(I haven't found a community for that here :(

(Edit: Drug Reddit was amaziiing, especially r/shrooms r/trees r/dxm | can't really start a community because I'm not regular enough in this area, I guess that's a good thing)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 hours ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Is erowid still good? I have it enshrined in the back of my head as the place for plant info

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

havent heard of 'Erowid' in a minute. Great memories back then, simpler times

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

I learned so much off ppl tweaking off taking too much, life saver for sure.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago

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)

[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

OK but how the FUCK did r/forcedcreampie survive the purge?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 minutes ago

Porn is made by actors who sometimes roleplay scenes that aren't actually real.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Under the New Founding Fathers, forced cream pies are ok, willing abortions are not.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Oh that's the most vile and gut wrenchingly nauseating comment i read all year. Well done and well said.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

New Founding Fathers sounds too distinguished. I vote for Foundling Man-babies.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

in other news, lemmy's NSFW instances see an influx of users

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 hours ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

hello and welcome!

this cesspit is less bad!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

hopefully the fact lemmy is more decentralized should avoid another digg or reddit situation

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Dont they have to wait like 2 weeks tho to post images or is that just some instances

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

i think thats per instance, didnt have this problem on mine. theres a lot of things that are decided per instance and you can see wildly different cultures starting to thrive between instances.

its looking up, i hope lemmy keeps going well.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (2 children)

My guess is that they’re expecting some new federal anti-porn legislation and are prepping for that. Porn is already basically outlawed in much of the south, (if not explicitly, then implicitly due to how many hoops porn makers need to jump through), and republicans have made it clear that they want to bring conservative policies at the federal level so liberal states can’t overrule them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

It’s on the list for project 2025.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

No porn. No weed.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Overwatch r34 ban

So you have chosen death by a thousand exoduses

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

Just following in Tumblr's footsteps. They have to sanitize it to fully monetize it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago

Hmm, delicious pasteurised reddit.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 hours ago (7 children)

Yeah this worked out great for OnlyFans, Tumblr, and Flickr. At least OnlyFans was smart enough to remember which side their bread was buttered on.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 hours ago

Terrible choice caving into the pseudo-moralists, but they've been going down a bad path for a long time. They should've looked at the cautionary tale of Tumblr before committing this own goal. Making sweeping changes to fit in with corporate agendas may be popular among their own class, but it also has the longer-term effect of sacrificing the user base. And they've been hemorrhaging for a while anyway. Where do they think their future profits will come from?

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