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.
. 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.
Olympus has fallen folks, r/rule34 has been banned!
I never thought I’d see the day.
My thoughts? Stupid that they had not left yet.
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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!
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.”
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.
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People like having long account ages.
Sure, and nothing prevents you from signing up to multiple of them.
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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.
confusion comes from not knowing if youll get all content, most give you all content
One of us…
“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.
well porn ppl all goto lemmynsfw anyways
Good point
First of all, how dare you.
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.
People always underestimate advertising. That is what I think is actually holding Lemmy back.
With good ads people would learn how to sign up fast. It’s not like it is harder than email.
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
There’s a spoon-sized amount of microplastic in our brains, ofc we are
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.
Some? I think there are more people doing such things than ever. It’s just that the growth of that community is overshadowed by the normies.
It’s crazy how little people understand about technology these days… But it’s also like this disinterest in even trying to learn.
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"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"
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 ^^^
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.
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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.
Totally worked for tumblr
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)
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.
RIP Reddit
Go ask Tumblr how removing the porn went.
Went away alongside with Tumblr users. Muppet who made this decision is probably well off though.
I tried twice to recover one of my favorite NSFW subs that was deleted due to being “unmoderated” but was denied both times. The sub was fairly active and I was on it daily and didn’t notice any real spam problems. There is a channel for it here on Lemmy NSFW but it’s not really active yet since it was a niche interest.
Clowns putting midgets with cocks bigger than their arms in bondage and tickling their feet.
Did I get it right?
Ew, feet?
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This morning I just casually checked “ask reddit after dark” sort of a fun sex community like Lemmy “ask lemmy nsfw”. Was surprised that reddit banned that community. I understand the issues they are having with free speech and even trans stuff based on the new Executive Orders of the Trump administration - but I don’t get it with porn. How is narrative, pics, or videos of porn related stuff an issue?
Go study history. Look up something called “McCarthyism”.
Don’t like your neighbors house color? He’s a communist and should be banned!
But…red houses don’t mean he’s a…
I SAID BANNED!!! YOU’RE BANNED TOO, YOU DISAGREEING COMMUNIST!!!
And as long as the controling crowd is mindlessly agreeing with you, it doesn’t need to make sense, or be logical. That’s McCarthyism in a nutshell.
And the best part is, Americans are dumb, don’t learn from history, and don’t see the inevitable happening right now before them. So you can ban anything. Books. Tv shows. Foods. News. Clouds. Yes, clouds. As in the puffy white things in the sky. Banned. I said it doesn’t need to make sense, didn’t I?
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.
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
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.
Kinda feels like a warning tbh. Or they’re trying to be another tumblr.
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.
Holy shit
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
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
They banned Wordington?? What’s next, Clamworks? Losercity?
Wordington is the sub I miss most after leaving Reddit D:
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)
My thoughts? I hope they feel welcome here.
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/
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.
