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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I know people here probably don’t want to jump back across, but people are actually wondering if this isn’t just NSFW and if it’s political…
Let’s goon
You mean all my reddit porn is now gone?
Fuck it. They all should migrate to Lemmy. There was some hard to find porn that I haven’t saved yet…
Lol RIP reddit
Just following in Tumblr’s footsteps. They have to sanitize it to fully monetize it.
Hmm, delicious pasteurised reddit.
The subs are back up for the record. According to an admin, it was a glitch.
Lmao, somebody said to do it and got called on the carpet by their shareholders.
I wouldn’t be surprised if it turns out they’re making a ban list for all these communities, but the ‘glitch’ was that someone turned it on before whatever PR move/manufactured scandal they were going to use to justify it was ready to go.
Or this was just a test fire to see how people would react.
both I bet
😂 like that Facebook “glitch” that banned any inclusive terms and force-followed Trump on people’s profiles? Lol these fuckers
That’s a pretty big glitch. 1. You have a nuclear button. 2. The omega thermal nuclear cluster bombs are pointed at a particular target
The glitch being they got caught and people complained
How were they ever not getting “caught” lol
Eh no need to get tin foil hat, imho.
I mean, one has to ask why they were setting up automated banning of these subreddits in the first place.
The reason for all of them was unmoderated. So it seems to me like they have/are testing a method to auto ban unmoderated subs. Not that crazy, imho.
subs like r/boobs are unmodded?
Hence the glitch. A glitch is when doesn’t perform as expected or desired.
I see, I assumed trans_surgeries wasn’t a nsfw sub, so I was weary of why it would be in the list with the rest.
Then why weren’t there loads more “unmoderated” subs of different categorize blocked?
If it was just a glitch, I suspect that the affected subreddits would better represent a random distribution of topics than what we witnessed.
A glitch is when something doesn’t work as you expect it to. I don’t know why you’d suspect any kind of behaviour from a glitch. Glitches can do all kinds of crazy shit.
To be clear, I’m speculating on what tool they may actually be working on.
I’m aware of what a glitch is. What I’m saying is that they are already targeting these specific subs regardless of their moderation status. The only ‘glitch’ here was that they got caught pushing an agenda.
If they are really testing things like that, it’s quite worrying that they did it on the production server…
Thats just regular boring old Incompetence.
Huffman was probably in a huge hurry to gargle Elon’s balls.
Uh huh. Like the glitch that put T_D on the front page - the entire front page.
One of those funny coincidences that keeps happening.
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?
According to a post from our Admin, in the small instance I’m in there has been a sudden influx of new users (about 200) in the last day or so (as new users have to be approved, somebody is getting cramps on their approve finger).
(Guess Anarchism and Piracy could technically count as NSFW in most workplaces, especially the latter)
Reason is always “unmoderated” despite some of the banned subreddits being fully moderated.
Well, that’s a lie, because /r/programming still has mods. Pretty sure they did nothing in the last 10 years. I guess it’s because the sub wasn’t NSFW, I guess.
They have been coming back. /drugs being one that is back. Don’t know wtf happened, but glad I’m here.
Test
r/transgender_surgeries wasn’t porn. It was a community outlet for results so people could understand what to expect. Queer folk always get swept up with porn, cishet only see us as a “kink” and assume our existence is entirely sexual.
It’s fucking infuriating.
I mean, ffs. #notallcishet? I don’t get how people who are being oppressed and all lumped together under one description (which you all definitely are) can be so nonchalant throwing around broad strokes like that.
Lol was that hashtag ironic? You know “not all men” is frequently referenced as a critique about men who can’t hear criticism of gender equality because “not all men”? As a cishet dude: calm down, their point is valid and your reaction is cringe
Ludicrous. But fuck it. As you were 🙄
You got a problem with trans people? No? Then it wasn’t talking about you. Christ, is that hard to understand?
When a group of people makes an “us vs them” against a minority, it forces the minority to use that language back. As a cishet person, your identity is being used as a weapon to harm trans people regardless if you’re doing anything. Ignorance of the minorities plight can be weaponized to do more harm and that ignorance can be shielded through appeals to normalcy and tradition.
When you respond to that language with “not all cishet people” you signal that your support is contingent on you not losing anything (your ignorance is one of the things you can lose). Which can and will be used to weaponize more harm against the minority group.
I realize that I’m outnumbered here and that this is apparently an unpopular opinion, but nobody is forcing anyone to say “all x are y” because someone else is (I agree, in bad faith) doing the same thing.
You’ve both been quite rude to me and I’m done engaging you, but that’s the full extent of my point and I’m unconvinced by your rebuttals.
Ciao now 🫡
nobody is forcing anyone to say “all x are y” because someone else is (I agree, in bad faith) doing the same thing.
Legal documents are being made to say that all x (transgender individuals) are now y (the wrong gender) because someone else (the government) is making them say so.
I’ve never disputed that. I don’t know how reiterating that fact in any way supports the idea that it “forces” transgender individuals to use the same language to describe “all cishet” people.
That was my point. It always has been.
If I were visually impaired and protesting unsuccessfully for better accessibility in my work environments, I can’t imagine why I would make a claim in any capacity including the language “all sighted people”.
Well it is genitals but the purpose is entirely different. I don’t agree with it but I can at least see the logic.
By that “logic”, all obgyn’s are sex workers. It’s shit justification for bigotry and shouldn’t be given any credence whatsoever.
Not sure I follow the logic since an OBGYNs job is not get you off.
If they are banning NSFW images, then that’s why.
Like I said the purpose of those images in the trans subreddits serve an educational purpose. But you probably shouldn’t be viewing it at work. If they are banning nudity, that’s nudity.
Like I said I don’t agree with the ban hammer, but it’s consistent. However, in my opinion, all it should be left as is regardless of the purpose.
since an OBGYNs job is not get you off.
Neither is trans people posting the results of surgery.
This entire line of thinking is contradictory, nonsensical and unhelpful.
I was replying to comment the “OBGYNs are sex workers” comment. Tran surgery pics are very useful and not porn.
If you can’t follow that logic I’m not sure what to do.
You… see who’s in charge, right? Republicans always target LGBTQ+ folks for “pornographic” violations.
It’s a shame. I’m not trans. I’m a cis male and I have no desire to be female. But I live in a very trans friendly community and as such I have many trans friends and they need outlets. I joined a meetup group which inadvertly became a trans safe space (original topic was anime) and many trans people just joined as it was the one space where they weren’t judged. We just did it in the way of anime, like their only safe space is something not trans releated and this is despite living in a friendly city. I will be an ally to all my trans friends and support them in this time of need.
I’m currently discussing with people about mirroring it somewhere on lemmy, but there is also Transbucket which already exists.
Queer folk always get swept up with porn, cishet only see us as a “kink” and assume our existence is entirely sexual.
This is the whole point of these porn bans is to remove queer people from the internet. The porn cover just allows it to happen. So whenever you see anything about porn bans think queer ban first and then some porn removal that comes right back
The old ass fascists trying to hold together their plutocracy suppress anything that goes against their patriarchal values.
Even looking at it as a fetish, trans porn has been skyrocketing in popularity
https://www.pornhub.com/insights/transgender-searches
And this terrifies right wingers
The current patriarchy sees non-binary people as a threat to their heirachies. If the line between man and woman gets blurred then we start questioning why we aren’t all actually equal, and that leads to us removing them from power.
Really anything that shows or hints that any part of their “natural” order is something created. Gender is a big one but anything
it’s telling that they target trans content; but leave gay content alone.
They lost the chance to scapegoat the gays after they failed to in the 80s during the AIDS epidemic
Now there’s too many gay people in the population to keep them down.
Once we get over this hurdle the same will be true for Trans people.
Now there’s too many gay people in the population to keep them down.
Well if we made more gay people, let’s just make more trans people. Problem solved!
I’m doing my part ;3
let’s just make more trans people. Problem solved!
This is literally what right wingers accuse trans people trying to engage with kids in public of doing. Like trans story time, or trans teachers. That they’re going to trans their children, like it’s some kind of vampire curse.
Gay people are on the chopping block for sure, just a bit farther down
They knew that their attacks on gay people weren’t as popular as they once were so they are taking the exact same tactics and language and moving it towards Trans people. It both predictable and sad at the same time
it’s sad, but expected from conservatives; the real sadness is an “ally” like biden who didn’t enact the equal right amendment that would help protect trans people from the legal version of this shit and then very publicly pretended that he did.
Why are people still talking about Biden? He’s not the president and I thought we all agreed he was a feeble brained old centrist who needed to gtfo the way. Living rent free etc.
The damage he allowed to happen doesn’t magically disappear once he left office
The damage they’ve all allowed going back decades. He’s bought and paid for just like every other pol. None of them are on our side and shouldn’t be treated like they are.
Wait until they find out that conservatives also jerk off
Spez: “Daddy Elon wants me to get rid of all the twitter critical and trans related subs. How can I do it without it being too obvious?”
Snoo Lackey: “Easy. What we’ll do is ban a load of morally grey subs like porn and drug related ones along with the twitter critical and trans ones. Then, when the predictable uproar kicks off, we’ll wait awhile then announce it was all a terrible mistake and we’ll reactivate all the porn ones. We just won’t reactivate the twitter critical or trans ones. Because lets be honest - no one really cares and as long as the simpletons have their wank bank back, they’ll neither notice nor care either!”
Spez: “Brilliant!”
Good theory, but it looks like they all came back including the transgender related subs.
Man, I hope lemmynsfw is ready, lol
Are they the only porn instance? I am surprised at little porn I see on here and when I do it’s all lemmynsfw.
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!As much as it sucks to say, it wouldn’t surprise me if this stuff on Reddit is for the same reason.
Isnt it harder to host that kind of stuff, like you need certain providers, prob a bitch to moderate
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.
RIP lemmynsfw’s inbox.
They’re gonna need so much money to host all the new content.
