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.
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.
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 thart post is from a different instance
Though google doesn’t like urls without keywords
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.
They killed Roe v Wade already.
Kinda feels like a warning tbh. Or they’re trying to be another tumblr.
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/
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.
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!
Thanks for posting this. I was wondering about a way to filter posts.
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)
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.
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.
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.
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
I have absolutely no idea what these companies are doing.
Are they afraid of Trump? Are they afraid of Musk? Are they afraid of the combination of both?
Idk, I thought two incompetent idiots like them would be no threat to the corpos of America, even in the oval office. But maybe I overestimated the corpos.
Or are they jumping on the band wagon voluntarily? It’s so weird to me…
Looks like new corporate virtue signalling to me.
That’s exactly what it is.
They see more dollar signs from fascism than they do from pretending to care about, well, anything.
They already have dollars. There must be another motivator.
There can never be enough dollars
The hunger for money and power increases with how much money and power a person has.
And it’s always been that way.
Plus, in my opinion, a single rich person can never be as greedy as an entire corporation owned by many of them, all wanting their own yachts, etc.
My wife works in medical research for a company you’ve probably heard of. Talking about diversity is a big part of her job, not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because it’s scientifically necessary. If they don’t have a diverse population on a study, the data will be skewed.
She’s no longer allowed to talk about diversity. She’s not even allowed to say the word. She had to remove slides from a presentation she was giving.
Why does she comply so willingly?
Not to pick on her, I get it, sort of, but maybe just “forget” to remove the slides?
Small acts of resistance pile up & those of us with even a crumb of privilege must speak & act now to protect those who don’t even have that.
It’s a valid question.
She pushed back to her managers and was told they’re following up with the legal department. So hopefully it gets fixed higher up.
Maybe you’re right that she should use this as an opportunity to resist, but that resistance wouldn’t make it outside of these little meetings.
I don’t want to be too hard on anybody, this is scary shit.
It’s just something to keep in mind.
Replace with the term “heterogeneous sample”. The prefix hetero- should comfort those snowflakes.
What about euphemisms?
“We have to cast a wide net during the study to prevent the data from being skewed”
There will always be a way to maliciously comply, it’s just a question of how much shit you’ll get for doing so.
Fuck, I don’t remember the last time I wished an internet comment was fake this much.
In fascism, the state and business essentially become one entity. These corporations just see the writing on the wall, and I’m sure many of them are doing it purely out of self-preservation.
Others probably have some romantic view of industry in Nazi Germany, and think they can glom onto the fascists and become the next Hugo Boss or Volkswagon.
When corporations are legally bound to maximize shareholder value then facism is a natural development.
These corporations just see the writing on the wall, and I’m sure many of them are doing it purely out of self-preservation.
I guess, but as I said, I did not expect the corpos of America that have basically bought the government through lobbyists to be afraid of that. Especially the tech giants, who could probably reshape public opinion with a turn of a dial on their algorithms.
Others probably have some romantic view of industry in Nazi Germany, and think they can glom onto the fascists and become the next Hugo Boss or Volkswagon.
Musk and his companies certainly expect that, but I am skeptical of the others to join in this late.
Both explanations are possible but they seem unlikely to me. I feel like I am missing a piece of the puzzle.
Most of this only works if you play along. If they all just said no, there would be nothing like this. The only real threat is to Google because it’s a legit monopoly. I don’t see what a substantial executive branch threat would be on any of the social medias. The TikTok thing only happened due to the China tag.
You’re saying they’re going along to get along.
It’s bizarre that anyone would care about a subreddit, unless it’s spite. Basically, oh, you banned incels and nazis? You will be dismantled as a monopoly (or some other ludicrous threat) if you don’t now ban trans. That’s what you get.
As I type that last paragraph I’m thinking of the 1A speech in November that everyone, minus ~300k people on YT, ignored. He promised to search out and go after the moderators, the banners, the shadow banners (who told him about shadow banning?), of all of social media, and punish them. This is likely the “polished” rollout of that directive, per his admin.
Remember, when trump told staff to do things during the first 4 people did a lot of nodding and then did nothing, talked him out of things, talked him into waiting on that, as well as having gaping holes where staff should have been. Now, he gives a directive, and the Project 2025 people and corporate can say “yes sir” and twist that trump directive into whatever shape they like.
Pencil-pushers live in a bubble, remember
People thought this was a slow ban rollout. Looks like now they are ripping off the bandaid.
it looks like wherever they could find any reason, even made up, they did and banned subs for that. where they couldn’t, they banned or removed mods and then banned sub for being unmoderated
Holy shit
They banned Wordington?? What’s next, Clamworks? Losercity?
but you see, wordington was gay and black so probably got caught in these anti-dei filters (removal of old mods after they tried to scam users out there probably didn’t help either)
Wordington is the sub I miss most after leaving Reddit D:
It seems like only straight porn allowed what the fuck they banned /r/gayporn
Like if they wanted to ban ALL NSFW subs that would be shitty but I can get why corpos don’t like that. But this seems designed to generate controversy.
No, as there are clearly many non lgbtq subs banned
First they came for porn - I didn’t care, because I had a couch, then they came for trans stuff - I didn’t care, because I had a couch, then they came for drugs - I didn’t care, because I had a couch, then my couch broke from active couchfucking and there were nobody to help me fix it.
Jd is that you shouldn’t you be at the white house?
I’m the people’s politician
I thought Musk was the vice president. I mean president.
My thoughts? Stupid that they had not left yet.
you’re not wrong but Lemmy just doesn’t have the pop to get over the early adopters curve yet. This could very well do it though with how much people love their porn.
I think the main barrier to entry for Lemmy is having to pick an instance. For a lot of people that is confusing and they’ve never had to do it before. There are definitely people who would give up because they don’t understand what to do.
As someone on lemmy who had never had to pick an instance before, it’s not that hard. The instances have descriptions similar to subreddits. You just pick one that sounds friendly. The problem is lack of content diversity. I’m still on reddit for niche topics, some of which are actually not that niche.
It was confusing for me.
Day 1 ‐ “What’s an instance? Which one is the main one?”
“There is no main one.”
“Which one is the biggest?”
“Well, Lemmy.World is the biggest, but you’re not supposed to pick…”
“I picked Lemmy.World.”
Hello I’m very new. Why not Lemmy.World?
The idea being that reddit is one centralized service, with one “instance” and therefore if Spez says fuck you, you don’t have much recoarse.
Whereas on Lemmy, there’s many instances. So if the crowd spreads out evenly, no single instance gets too big, and therefore too powerful.
If the instance owner of Lemmy.world tells me to go fuck myself, I can tell him to go fuck themself. I can just go to lemm.ee or sht.jstworks (or however they spell it), or I could even interact with Lemmy from another service entirely. I could go to mbin, or piefed. Actually I have accounts on both that I don’t use.
After picking Lemmy.World innitially I tried a few others, but didn’t see the need to switch. Mostly I’m looking for a good stable instance that isn’t going anywhere. Which Lemmy.World fills those boxes.
But that doesn’t mean other people are wrong with what I’ve said. I appriciate all the people on other instances because choice makes monopolies disappear.
I’m sorry, I misinterpreted you saying “I chose world” as a negative thing.
I’m also on World and I like it a lot!
It was important to me to find a place that was similar enough to reddit to let my transition be easier. I’ve been on reddit for like 14 years and I just wanted an alternative that is close to what I knew.
I like world a lot, but in general I like the whole idea of the Fediverse.
For sure, I’ve always said that for the most part it doesn’t really matter. Make an account on anyone of them and if you don’t align with that instance in the long run you can just hop to a different one.
People like having long account ages.
Sure, and nothing prevents you from signing up to multiple of them.
I did the hop for mastodon but that was mostly because I learned an instance can set a higher character limit and I absolutely hate fucking threads of tweets.
confusion comes from not knowing if youll get all content, most give you all content
Yeah but it will also influence your all feed, which is the main way of finding content when there’s no specific community for your interests.
Or sometimes you run into the propaganda instances/users if you pick wrong.
It becomes a hassle and we know normal people don’t want to even try.
“I picked Lemmy.World.”
For me, it was kbin.social - but kbin and lemmy didn’t play well together when I joined (and now it’s in its current state). Then I picked lemmy.world - and they went down one day due to the influx of users. Then I picked sh.itjust.works and I’ve been happy ever since. I’ll be staying here until the day I spin up my own instance.
However, if they become regulars, I think they eventually find communities they’d rather identify with.
One of us…
well porn ppl all goto lemmynsfw anyways
I hope they are ready for the influx.
First of all, how dare you.
Good point
Or yiffit!
I’m honestly tired of seeing people make the excuse that switching to activitypub is “too hard” because they have to pick a server. It’s 2025, is half of the population experiencing an intelligence regress or something
I think you’re underestimating how tech challenged the average user is. It’s likely that your circle and the lemmy community as a whole tends to be more tech savvy which kinda skews it a bit; but it’s a very, very tiny subset of people and not representative of the general population of internet users.
It’s crazy how little people understand about technology these days… But it’s also like this disinterest in even trying to learn.
Many people I personally know don’t even know how to use a browser, they do everything through apps served to them.
What in the heck happened lol we go from a generation of people building PCs, using DOS, hacking around in Windows and debloating operating systems, to people who can’t function unless their phone tells them what to do
building PCs, using DOS, hacking around in Windows
Only a tiny slice of the population ever did this. Some still do.
More did learn how to use Windows for their jobs, but that’s largely diminished now.
There’s a spoon-sized amount of microplastic in our brains, ofc we are
"Lemmy has 42k monthly active users
- https://discuss.online/ if you want a server located in the USA (content is still accessible from any server, the most difference latency)
- https://sopuli.xyz/ if you want a server located in the EU
- https://vger.app/ if you want an app
Feel free if you have any questions"
Yes, and it shouldn’t be a user-facing thing to pick an instance. Also identities shouldn’t be tied to instances.
NOSTR is not populous enough, its content is mostly waves of repetition from Twitter, Reddit, even Fediverse, but they’ve done the relays thing right (you use an initial list of relays, then clients exchange lists of relays, simple and not the most efficient way, but still functional enough for Gnutella, BitTorrent etc). Except the concept of a pubkey being an identity is naive. But if your NOSTR identity is not as important as your Facebook profile or phone number, then maybe it’s fine to make it a pubkey. They have paid or limited relays too, which store only events from their members. I don’t remember how it’s done.
It has the stigma of being done by cryptobros for cryptobros, but the technology itself involves no blockchain.
I still don’t like NOSTR, they’ve made some things simpler than acceptable. I like how it shows that the relay model works and even scales.
The usual issue brought up about Nostr isn’t the cryptobros, it’s the lack of moderation.
NOSTR has NIP’s for moderated communities, I don’t remember how many clients support that.
There is at least one NSFW instance people could join if they wanted that content.
I don’t know why you’re so rude on Tuesdays. That’s “Tits Out Tuesdays”! Plus you get tacos!
Thursday can go fuck itself though.
Tuesdays are the worst. With Monday, you at least have the weekend’s rest behind you. With Wednesday you’re at least halfway through the week. With Tuesday you’ve got nothing.
Although if “Tits Out Tuesdays” was widely accepted I admit that I would change my tune!
Right? Too late to organize after the entire sub gets nuked. The time to plan a migration or at least for backups is now! They don’t get it smh
THIS ^^^
I assume they will most likely not come over here because there are users like this mod:
Looks like reddit is using the momentum of starting sub bans as an opportunity to ban things that might land them in hot water legally or politically
- Rule34, and anime porn is banned because r34 is based on existing copyrighted material (and so are the anime subs probably)
- Drugs because of the “war of drugs”.
- transgender_surgeries because the current US administration is profoundly transphobic.
Damn removing the r34 subreddit really is the end of an era.
its not just anime porn. Multiple body part specific subs have been banned despite being actively moderated. I think it’s a poem ban plus any thing that might be a bad look to the New Admin
Yeah thousands of niche porn subs got banned gor being “unmoderated” over the past few years. I think reddit is slowly trying to reduce the amount of porn on the website to appear better as a company.
They have been trying to become the new “Facebook but not for old people” for the last several years. Like they still want to be hip and appear somewhat niche, yet be mainstream enough to pull in users and advertisers and money. Spez seems to think you can still have it both ways. The extremely small (relatively speaking) amount of people who have left for Lemmy understand you can’t have it that way. (THIS SHIT AINT NO BURGER KING DAWG)
Totally worked for tumblr
It’s almost like the free speech absolutists only really cared about allowing one specific type of speech.
Reddit’s board has been fighting over whether to house porn subs for years now. Spez has been very vocal about how difficult that has been for reddit.
I cry a five gallon bucket of tears for Spez and his difficulties every night before I sleep.
I don’t either but anyone thinking there havent been attempts to axe porn on reddit at the top levels they would be mistaken.
I got banned for 7 days for posting a Luigi cap
no cap
on god fr fr
Such rizz
much skibidi toilet
We’re the dads that use teen lingo to make our kids roll their eyes now, aren’t we?
spez wants a cabinet position.
Or musk to buy it and make him super rich
. 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.
Drugs prob saved my friends and I, we never had a bad situation because of reddit I knew dosages, I knew not to do what old top posts had done, just lowered anxiety and got me not to be stupid.
Erowid when I was younger. Then pill reports to make sure what I was getting was what I expected.
I would be dead (and/or in prison) several times over if not for Erowid. This is not an exaggeration.
I recently revisited the site, and even made a donation (now that I can actually afford it).
Basic harm prevention, we were always hydrated, not reading horror stories and seeing all that advice would’ve made me not even think of it
