this post was submitted on 05 Feb 2025
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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 @[email protected]):

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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[–] sentient_loom 18 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I'm against the ban, but I also don't want that gooning here. Although that's what drives like half of the internet so maybe it's a good thing for the fediverse.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 day ago

pretty much just lemmynsfw, and nsfw can easily be turned off here

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It'll be constrained to pro-gooning instances, most seem to be defederated from porn but the influx of users in general will spill over to the non-gooning instances.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Like - a lot of Reddit users seemed to have accounts specifically to interact with porn, I think that transfers well into the Fediverse, you just get your porn account on an instance that is federated with the porn ones.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

Yep, and that will have spillover. There isn't going to be an increase in porn on non-porn instances, but the growth of porn instances will increase general users, though not at a 1 to 1 rate.

[–] ghen 7 points 1 day ago

That's how mine works, and I use different apps to browse porn so those apps are logged into the correct account always.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Many technologies lived and died based on what the gooners chose, e.g. VHS vs betamax. I welcome them

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

As a horny pedant I need to tell you that's not why Betamax failed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago

Betamax was used by climbers^1 , clearly everyone went with vhs to avoid them.
^1 a recomended sequence of moves is called a beta to this day

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Is it one of those internet "facts" like the eating spiders in your sleep one?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You can just block that instance

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

And disable NSFW, filter words etc.