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 @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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[–] TheFin@leminal.space 1 points 29 minutes ago

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

[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 36 minutes ago* (last edited 35 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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[–] derpgon@programming.dev 3 points 28 minutes ago

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

[–] SpaceFox@lemmy.ml 1 points 47 minutes ago (1 children)

And nothing of value was lost

[–] derpgon@programming.dev 1 points 27 minutes ago

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

[–] Shape4985@lemmy.ml 82 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] JDPoZ@lemmy.world 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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[–] hector@sh.itjust.works 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)

[–] delgato@sh.itjust.works 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.

[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 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

[–] codenul@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago

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

[–] dilroopgill@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

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

[–] hector@sh.itjust.works 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)

[–] superkret@feddit.org 27 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] Soulg@sh.itjust.works 1 points 12 minutes ago

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

[–] Tuxman@sh.itjust.works 37 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] Ulvain@sh.itjust.works 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.

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

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

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 73 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf 21 points 5 hours ago (2 children)
[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 hours ago
[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 8 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

hello and welcome!

this cesspit is less bad!

[–] Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf 6 points 4 hours ago (2 children)
[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 hours ago

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

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[–] dilroopgill@lemmy.world 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

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 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.

[–] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 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.

[–] sleepmode@lemmy.world 2 points 57 minutes ago

It’s on the list for project 2025.

No porn. No weed.

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Overwatch r34 ban

So you have chosen death by a thousand exoduses

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.ml 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.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago

Hmm, delicious pasteurised reddit.

[–] Hillmarsh@lemm.ee 8 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?

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 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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