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.
Purging NSFW subs from Reddit? Will there even be anything left? lol
My thought exactly. Apparently people are using that stinky site for something that’s not just porn?
Where else is there to go when I want to read content that’s an unmarked advertisement?
Oh right, the NYT/WSJ/WaPo exists, nevermind.
Looks like it was a bug. Because they’re still up.
Kinky people are still going to be kinky even if they can’t post about it on Reddit. Here’s to hoping lemmyNSFW gets some of those “niche subs”. ;-)
Just checked and all these supposedly “banned” subs are up and running.
Wow… is everything aligned… are there USA laws pushing this or something? Despicable pieces of shit
I have to ask but uh, does he REALLY look like that, or has someone photoshopped him. Because if you look up ‘weird nerd nobody liked in highschool on a power trip because he runs a webstie now’ on wikipedia, that’s the image you’d get.
(And before I get lambasted about how I’m judging someone from their appearance: just no. I just find it hilarious the guy who acts like that also happens to look exactly like you’d expect. Some sort of uh, appearance determination thing, or whatever.)
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.
My previous 15yo account was banned with no warning for saying Palestinians have a right to defend themselves at any cost. I never had so much as a post removed or warning from admins. And it left my largest subs unmoderated and now they returned to shit
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.
What do you bet they don’t even do that anymore?
$5 says almost no company does even the most perfunctory rainbow capitalism avatar changes this year, because, well, that’d be DEI or woke or someshit.
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.
I feel like this is the perfect time for the return of a certain Fawkcian group.
They’ll reverse the X ban any second now.
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.
I’d be a little nicer: there’s at least one if not two generations now who have never communicated outside of these walled gardens.
Like, I’m entirely certain some of my niblings have no fucking clue what a text message is, since they grew up on snapchat and whatsapp and facebook messenger.
Perhaps a reasonable outreach that’s not just ‘u suck for using nazi shit!’ (which uh, I do agree with) might be a little more useful in capturing anyone under the age of like, 30.
Good, honestly. Let them scatter to other platforms. Reddit needs to shut down.
Now they say it was a bug? How that works?
It’s exactly what Elon did with banning people on Twitter.
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.
Knowing current Reddit, that’s quite possible. Though I’d love to see a migration through LemmyNSFW if that happens again permanently.
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!
LTT had a few videos on degoogling your life. Provides some alternatives to each service.
You lost me at LTT
You can not like the guy and also admit his tips are valid.
No I can’t
Sounds like a “you” problem.
The push you needed was the removal of a bunch of porn? What’s wrong with you, gooner?
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.
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