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 are banned too. Definitely feels politically motivated. Edit 2: seems like at least some (?) bans are being undone, like the above mentioned ones.
They were just testing the waters. They’re gonna do it again, mmw.
Good, let porn migrate to https://lemmynsfw.com/ - finally more good content on Lemmy
And trans people are always welcome here! Direct them over to Lemmy as much as you can
Given that they started unbanning some of these, $20 says these dumbasses plugged in a new “AI mod” without testing it first.
direct link that works on firefox unlike that one https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1iiah18/nsfw_subreddit_purge_many_subs_have_been_banned/
Kinda feels like a warning tbh. Or they’re trying to be another tumblr.
Reddit sadly houses a lot of information and is found anywhere else on the internet. Even here on lemmy, we have hardly added a fraction of the information still house on Reddit.
Lemmy.World or Lemmy.Ml or <insert instance name>…? The user based is divided into fiefdoms and thats a problem and why Lemmy will never replace reddit.
Reddit itself is an empire. We want little community run fiefdoms. The real problem is you have to log into just one of them to participate. There are specs being worked on that will fix that, but this is new tech in the internet, it takes time.
That’s a strength, not a weakness. This means no one group controls all information. No one person can decide “x thing” is bad and purge it from Lemmy.
The app I use just amalgamates them all into the same feeds
That’s true, but search engines aren’t really made for the fediverse. If you don’t find some good blog posts about something you simply add site:Reddit.com to the search Query and bam you get good results. The same thing isn’t possible for Lemmy.
Sort of is
Instance/post/numericalstring
Can be saved by a search engine even if that post is from a different instance
Though google doesn’t like urls without keywords
What i meant is, that its quite hard to find something, if you don’t know the instance something is posted on.
Kagi has a fediverse search I think
I think it’s time for me to block posts from this community. Most of us came here as reddit refugees. No one on Lemmy should be suprised about the rapid enshitification of that platform. The best thing anyone can do is walk away completely and don’t look back.
. Edit 2: seems like at least some (?) bans are being undone, like the above mentioned ones.
Is it cover for a targeted purge?
Let’s see what subs stay banned.
People are forgetting this all springs from the Heritage Foundation and Project 2025.
THEY are the ones pulling the strings behind Trump. The corporations and billionaires funding that (not Musk) that are shelling out the cash and have been since the Reagan era.
Folks who think that the Pornhub ban in a few states and the ID request in others is the new norm are going to be in for a surprise when a nationwide ban gets passed shortly. That has always been on the agenda for them.
It’s a Christian Extremist agenda (think Handmaids Tale) and all you fuckers who voted for him or didn’t vote in retaliation allowed this shit to happen.
I cannot believe the amount shocked people I’ve ran across at work recently, who are Republicans who are still in denial and still think things are going to get better - or have some sort of bizarre belief that Trump is going to start suddenly making everything cheaper for everyone. Idiots!
When Trump won they realized they could use him. They spent the last 4 years pecking at his brain and writing up their dream bills for him to sign. There’s no way Trump is the instigator of the vast majority of what he’s signing.
Step 1: Ban porn.
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Profit
I think banning porn is in part about getting birthrates back up. They’re scared of replacement. There’s the morality crap they’re tossing but the driving force is replacement theory and lost profit. They don’t want to be like Japan.
Partially, probably.
More importantly, it’s about absolute control
I don’t see how banning porn accomplishes this. Women are the gatekeepers who get to decide whether or not a baby gets born and as a population grows wealthier and more educated the women tend to have less kids. Has very little to do with porn which is mostly watched by men.
The solution to not being like Japan is immigration. That’s why our population isn’t declining every year like Japan. Without current level of immigration, our population would be decreasing every year and we would be like Japan.
I agree with you. This administration does not. I mentioned replacement theory in my comment. Thats why imigration wouldn’t work. They dont see it as an option. They also are working on a national ban on abortion. Ultimately they see us all as cattle, but to get the population up? Women would be more so. Think legislation that makes divorce almost impossible. Tax breaks for ‘traditional’ families. (especially those that have multiple kids). MAJOR propaganda to push people to have children. Imagine that upcoming Facebook AI army all telling you how great being a parent is. Deeper discrimination in the workforce.
As for banning porn, it makes people more horny. More than that banning, porn also could ban many sexual education resources available online. Maybe the regulate birth control OR make it only accessible through insurance. Nasty work. Hundreds of dollars for your birth control that you need to regulate your periods because you don’t have insurance.
Rather than finding porn horny people go out and try to have sex. More sex means more kids. Add to that the removal of those educational resources I mentioned and now you have teens who don’t know any better having sex and getting pregnant. Funny how Trump is about to attack the department of education. What kids would have learned in school is lost to budget cuts and just over welmed and new biased teachers. Oh and rest assured their will be new teachers. Passionate volunteers I’m sure, to help teach your kids to be little monsters for God.
All this starts with heavier regulation on porn. It might not be a full ban, but it could be an effective ban. You wouldn’t be able to search it, many sights wouldn’t host it, and accessing it would require ID (and probably payment ti help support the infrastructure that would require).
Women are the gatekeepers who get to decide whether or not a baby gets born
Not under Republican rule they don’t!
I mean unless they start enforcing state sanctioned rape women have a choice of whether or not to have sex. I get your point though.
Iirc department of education said something like “young women are supposed to start families not go to college”
Maybe it was someone else but it goes to show how insane the federal government has become
They killed Roe v Wade already.
Seems like some of the bans are being undone? Testing the waters? Banning everything until a mod steps forward and says they were actively modding?
Yep, updated the title. Hard to not get conspiratorial though when it affects subs like /r/transgender_surgeries… might be testing the waters.
Is it? The first two nsfw subs I tried, both of them were up.
Is there some theme perhaps to what has been banned? removed pointless insult
I updated the title to reflect that they were being unbanned as of this moment. But if you look at the thread I linked, this was all true a couple hours ago.
Even took out AskRedditnsfw.
It’s okay though admins may reverse it…
Olympus has fallen folks, r/rule34 has been banned!
I never thought I’d see the day.
Isn’t NSFW stuff a big part of all reddit OC content and the reason many still have an account there?
during the reddit blackout i tried tracking the general activity on reddit and the posts per day dropped by ~10% during that time while the comments per day dropped by ~20%.
When i looked where most posts and comments came from most of it was on porn and hookup communities. Lots of it was also obiously botted.
Always knew that porn on reddit was a big thing but i never realized the scope.
There are niche subs that don’t exist here. The popular, million+ subs are all trashed, like a NYC sized garbage truck and a couple whales exploded, together. That’s just Reddit post going public.
Even so, there are no well populated hobby or career sites here, for example. And sometimes Reddit still has the only spoiler gaming guide on obscure things.
In mosta cases, the subs DO exist but there is lottle activity in them. The situation would probably be a lot better if some of the lurkers on here would post more regularly to their special-interest niche subs.
Even so, there are no well populated hobby or career sites here, for example
Well, there’s progress being made on some at least. I’m trying to breathe some life into !musicproduction@sh.itjust.works
I have no idea what is going on in sports anymore now that i don’t have Reddit. The fediverse is absolutely terrible for sports news
Even so, there are no well populated hobby or career sites here, for example.
Unless your hobby is !selfhosted@lemmy.world or you’re a programmer or sysadmin.
There are definitely more active hobby subs than that. Yes, you might only see a dozen of names actively posting/commenting in that community, but it is an active community.
Isn’t NSFW stuff a big part of all reddit OC content and the reason many still have an account there?
If old.reddit.com ever stopped working, NSFW content would be my primary reason for downloading the app…lmao
They can’t run ads on the subs though so they can’t use it to monetize. Big reason they got so pissed off at mods changing subs to nsfw
And reddit these days only cares about PR so can also be a time bomb. Only surprised they haven’t nuked everything NSFW
Hard to believe but still true: Some time ago even Onlyfans, which was originally intended as a platform for fitness videos and the like, tried to ban NSFW content for exactly the same reason - to the surprise of absolutely noone it wasn’t a very successful endeavor and was quickly withdrawn.
to the surprise of absolutely noone
I doubt Peter was surprised either.
I know it’s the only reason I ever end up there these days.
I only still go to reddit for that on one account (in incognito). My main account has only recently logged back in for regular browsing (but I try not to comment and I only use old.reddit + res) because Reddit is where a huge amount of the information I’m trying to find online is still housed, game information, niche hobbies, etc… It may be rotting from the inside, but its corpse is still walking and talking, and until the situation gets bad enough people are going to continue using it. I only interact here, but with the nature of how small the communities are, and the fact that I use [All - Top -Past 6 hours] my front page is still basically just the same articles about every fucked up thing going on around me posted onto every instance so I see the same headlines and pictures of Trump almost a dozen times, interspersed with various fetish porn communities.
I see the same headlines and pictures of Trump almost a dozen times
Feel free to block mentions of him name, either on your app or using a uBlock filter: https://lemmy.world/post/24545370
I think the biggest worry could be the repetition. Seeing an article on anything once - be it Brazilian economy or Norwegian electric grid - is interesting and great, but seeing the same article 12 times in a day can get tedious.
This isn’t a problem with just Lemmy, but it’s where I see it as it’s mostly what I use.
I’d like to see a change to prevent this duplication, but I suspect it’d be challenging to merge comment histories and/or keep comments separated. Just, once I’ve seen a trump article, for sure, I don’t want to see that sad dreck another 11 times!
lol if i filtered out trump/musk posts and block the furry instances there would be nothing left!
Try sorting by scaled to we posts form smaller communities trying to grow.
There is lots of stuff on lemmy outside of Trump/Musk and furries (tbh I think either I blocked the furries or somehow have not come across it for months now)
Is it time to train some Hunyuan Video/Flux loras or Spez pleasing Trump?
I think it may be. They can’t ban them all by signature if they’re unique.
