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.

  • Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    5 months ago

    <tinfoil hat> Other corporate social media has also had “bugs” that delete or hide advertiser unfriendly content, with staff scrambling to go “oopsie!”. That ain’t a bug, they’re testing something. </tinfoil hat>

    • vertis@lemmy.ml
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      5 months ago

      I don’t think this is really tinfoil hat. I’d like to see they explain how it just happened to remove that subset and not other things.

  • fmtx@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I see they’re following the Tumblr model:

    • Get bought at overinflated values.
    • Ban all NSFW content.
    • Users leave and seek NSFW content elsewhere.
    • Valuation plummets.
    • “Actually, moderating NSFW is really hard you guys. We’re just going to try best efforts moderation only.”
    • Sell at near total loss.
    • There is still NSFW content on the platform, and the policy is used as a cudgel against LGBTQ accounts.
  • misterhuh@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    They have been coming back. /drugs being one that is back. Don’t know wtf happened, but glad I’m here.

  • Kyrgizion@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Couldn’t have happened to a scummier hive of villainy. I wil unironically applaud every bad thing that happens to the site.

    Nothing of value lost, there are uncountable alternatives.

    • Wxnzxn@lemmy.ml
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      5 months ago

      As a quick reminder: don’t expect them to handle your load (lol) for free. If you are a gooner/goonette with some income, leave a tip for the server costs and consider volunteering for mod duties if you have time and some internet social skills. If you value your nsfw communities, they don’t exist without work, like any other community.

      • GreatAlbatross@feddit.ukEnglish
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        5 months ago

        Hosting NSFW content is an absolute ball-ache, so a lot of instances that are not NSFW focussed do not host it.
        In the early days of feddit.uk, we decided to go the path of SFW, to simplify things.
        I absolutely salute the lemmy-nsfw admins in taking that load on.
        And it makes a lot of sense: If you’re going to deal with the headaches, you might as well focus entirely on them!

      • HeadfullofSoup@kbin.earth
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        5 months ago

        Seem to have a big wave of shill and bot ( and private scam DM ) all with Nickname with a leaf emoji at the end to the point where i auto block every name i see with them

        • Amju Wolf@pawb.socialOP
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          5 months ago

          Seems you’re right. I tried a few subs when the original comment was posted and they didn’t work but now they seem to be back.

          To be fair, it’s still a good thing to remember that it takes like one press of a button to kill a shitton of communities a lot of people care about.

    • Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works
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      5 months ago

      A bug? You mean someone in the office accidentially pressed the big red ‘purge-everything-unholy-for-when-the-evangelicals-come-after-us’ button?

    • Amju Wolf@pawb.socialOP
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      5 months ago

      To be fair I don’t think that many people go to Reddit for porn. With Tumblr it seemed almost exclusive. But it’s still an odd move.

      • PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk
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        5 months ago

        Porn on Reddit used to be good but has been awful since the rise of OnlyFans. Now almost every post on porn subreddits is someone shilling their onlyfans using the same 5 second tease clips across dozens of tenuously related subreddits. If the exodus happens to Lemmy, that is what it will be here.

        OF killed good amateur porn

        • Wxnzxn@lemmy.ml
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          5 months ago

          OF killed good amateur porn

          As I have seen it pointed out, it’s not just that, although it is a huge part of it. Another, sadly, is that there was so much uncontrolled porn floating around the internet, much of it was pretty fucked up - involuntarily filmed and/or published without consent, not traceable, even with very unclear ages, etc., etc.

          So as a secondary effect, that I think is highly positive, most sites also just don’t allow for non-verified content, or at least are much better at removing anything remotely suspicious. That leaves the OF stuff as the main non-studio-produced source, as it allows for easy, professional verifications.

          • PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk
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            5 months ago

            it was at the time i wrote that comment (hence the screenshot). Reddit since came out and said there was an error. most of the banned subreddits are now back up

  • ShareMySims@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I sure am grateful for how easy it is to avoid porn on lemmy, may that continue to be the case with the certain upcoming influx of it.

  • Nollij@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    5 months ago

    This has been predicted for many years. Most were expecting it to happen before the IPO, since investors are afraid of porn.

    They had also been gradually heading down this path for a long time, making porn harder and harder (heh) to find and view.

    • Michal@programming.dev
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      5 months ago

      It’s not only porn. Today i google-image searched a skin condition. Most results were reddit links, but i wasn’t able to open any of them without their app as the subreddits were apparently 18+!

      I wasn’t able to view any of the information as i refuse to install the app. Google should deprioritize the results that can’t be viewed in the browser.

    • CluckN@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      Are they going to revert the changes in a few weeks when Musk loses interest? Seems like a huge loss of website traffic for some Elon virtue signaling.

    • conicalscientist@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      It did happen before the IPO. It’s been happening for several years. They have not been doing mass bans all at once. They’ve been surreptitiously taking down subreddits over the years. Mostly smaller ones that woujldn’t draw much attetnion. Looks like they went for the bigger targets now.

      This isn’t a sudden change to ideologically align with the current US administration either. They have been at this for a long time.

    • Vox@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      It’s only a matter of time. They don’t display any ads on nsfw subreddits currently, so management likely sees these subreddits as nothing but a cost, especially because they tend to be heavily image/gif based. what they are unsure about, which is why they haven’t been purged yet, is likely how much traffic to non-nsfw subreddits nsfw subreddits drive. I think we are likely to see purges of them when/if ad money dips or plateaus and they turn their eye to minimizing operating costs.