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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/37090761

This includes some porn subreddits as well as subreddits like /r/Drugs. Apparently due to being "unmoderated", but some were not. What are your thoughts?

Edit: apparently also subreddits like /r/transgender_surgeries is banned too. Definitely feels politically motivated.

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[–] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 7 points 29 minutes ago

Remember during next pride month, when they change their X picture on western accounts, that at the end of the day most companies will kill without discrimination for a fiver.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 17 points 59 minutes ago
[–] UncleGrandPa@lemmy.world 2 points 12 minutes ago* (last edited 10 minutes ago)

they're also targeting those with anti Fascist opinions and eliminating them from the site. by reporting them for hate speech and anti anything they can come up with. both the Mods and admins seem more than willing to help.

[–] Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world 16 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Does that mean we're going to get an influx of people from those communities on lemmy? They're welcome. Especially if they post in both...

But in all seriousness, yes it's politically motivated.

Reddit, Meta, Twitter, the list goes on.... if you're still using the services provided by the nazis in any capacity, you are perpetuating the continued relevance and power of a nazi machine. The end.

You need it to stay in touch with friends and family? Bullshit. These apps have been around for 10-20 years, friends and families have been around for hundreds of thousands of years. You just like the convenience.

You need it to stay informed? Bullshit. The info is out there and easy to find, don't be so lazy that you need to be spoonfed information by the same 3 bookmarks in your browser. They're deciding for you what you can and can't read about, and spoon feeding you propaganda as well.

If you are a truly principled person that sees all this for what it is, you will disconnect yourself from these things and encourage everyone you care about to do the same any time it comes up.

Otherwise you're just making excuses and assisting our decline.

[–] TheFunkyPickle@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 hour ago

Good, honestly. Let them scatter to other platforms. Reddit needs to shut down.

[–] asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 6 points 1 hour ago

Good. Let's have people come here.

[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 2 points 37 minutes ago

They'll reverse the X ban any second now.

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 28 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Now they say it was a bug? How that works?

[–] b161@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 37 minutes ago

It’s exactly what Elon did with banning people on Twitter.

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 29 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Maybe testing the waters. Next time it will be a bug so severe that they can't bring them back, but making new ones isn't allowed either.

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 10 points 3 hours ago

Knowing current Reddit, that's quite possible. Though I'd love to see a migration through LemmyNSFW if that happens again permanently.

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

This is the opportunity the Fediverse was waiting for.

[–] Jericho_Kane@lemmy.org 1 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

Where would one go if this place turns int reddit 2?

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 7 points 58 minutes ago

This place is setup kind of different.

If an instance starts becoming fascist the other instances can block it for all the users in their instance

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Lenny, then leooy, then leppy etc

[–] async_amuro@lemm.ee 20 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

I’d stopped using the platform a while ago and went full Lemmy, but this was the push I needed to delete that shit out of my life. Just need to figure out Google and Apple next, they’ve got me by the balls with those services!

[–] slumberlust@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

LTT had a few videos on degoogling your life. Provides some alternatives to each service.

[–] Jericho_Kane@lemmy.org 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] Darth_Cum@lemmy.world 8 points 1 hour ago

You can not like the guy and also admit his tips are valid.

[–] TheFunkyPickle@lemmy.zip -4 points 47 minutes ago (1 children)

The push you needed was the removal of a bunch of porn? What's wrong with you, gooner?

[–] async_amuro@lemm.ee 5 points 43 minutes ago (1 children)

I’m gonna assume you ignored the part about trans-related subreddits or you just don’t care in which case, I don’t care about your opinions.

[–] TheFunkyPickle@lemmy.zip -3 points 40 minutes ago

Birds of a feather flock together

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 8 points 3 hours ago

Ah the tumblr guide for how to kill your community.

Jokes aside that's very sad and very worrying.

[–] sajhino@lemmy.world 147 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (7 children)

Yeah a lot of banned nsfw subs today at /r/BannedSubs. People are saying it's because next week Reddit is gonna announce their Q4 earnings and want to attract more investors and advertisers to their "cleaner" site. Lame-ass puritans, I'd say.

edit: Looks like the bans have been reversed. A reddit admin claimed it was "a bug". Bruh, what kind of bug would only affect veeeery specific nsfw and political subreddits lmao.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 1 points 1 minute ago

They get all the nsfw traffic for the full quarter, and use that for their earnings report. Pretty damn dishonest.

[–] Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 hours ago

Testing a new AI moderator in production, I’d wager.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 11 points 3 hours ago

The reaction was the bug.

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 79 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

How'd that work out for tumblr?

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 29 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Tumblr was already in a bad place and was further cannibalized by instagram (and reddit).

Reddit still has no meaningful alternatives. Yes, we like lemmy. Most people don't and won't. They want corporate social media. Just look at how long it took people to leave twitter. And they only did once BlueSky had open sign ups.

My money is on a bunch of "protest" posts and subreddits to track this and people mostly just sit around and not care. With a lot saying "I don't need porn on reddit, I have the internet" while completely ignoring things like trans erasure.

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[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 24 points 5 hours ago (4 children)

That is good news for my nsfwlemmy.com alt 😏😆

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 23 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Don't be a coward, jerk off on your main and your alt!

[–] Arkouda@lemmy.ca 25 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

In my experience it is better to segregate NSFW and SFW accounts. Not because it is shameful and I don't want people seeing, but because NSFW floods feeds and I can't get anything done when encumbered by pretty naked women. lol

[–] devfuuu@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

And it's pretty wild when trying to scroll anything in public or with people nearby.

[–] Arkouda@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 hours ago

Not an issue I have to contend with personally as I don't use anything other than my laptop at home when I want to be on the internet, but a very valid reason to separate NSFW from SFW social media nonetheless.

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[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 hours ago

Fine, I'll get an NSFW alt...

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[–] db2@lemmy.world 96 points 6 hours ago

Anyone who didn't see this coming a mile away hasn't been paying attention.

[–] abobla@lemm.ee 53 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Let's go recommend Lemmy to them!!!

[–] scytale@lemm.ee 30 points 5 hours ago

I saw one thread where lemmy was being recommended and some people were on board with moving over, so that was nice to see.

[–] Xanthobilly@lemmy.world 16 points 5 hours ago

I do it by posting r/lemmy. I figured mods are less likely to delete the comment if it’s a subreddit.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 27 points 5 hours ago

People were predicting this a while back as a way that reddit would make themselves more "advertiser-friendly".

I also wonder if there were some legal concerns in those states that now require porn sites to check IDs.

[–] MrShelbs@lemmy.ca 30 points 5 hours ago (7 children)

Certainly expected. It was my last social media (apart from Bluesky). I can't endorse this as a trans man. Time to be more active on Lemmy and purge my Reddit account.

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