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.

  • Phoenicianpirate@lemm.eeEnglish
    6·
    2 hours ago

    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…

  • fmtx@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    32·
    4 hours ago

    I see they’re following the Tumblr model:

    • Get bought at overinflated values.
    • Ban all NSFW content.
    • Users leave and seek NSFW content elsewhere.
    • Valuation plummets.
    • “Actually, moderating NSFW is really hard you guys. We’re just going to try best efforts moderation only.”
    • Sell at near total loss.
    • There is still NSFW content on the platform, and the policy is used as a cudgel against LGBTQ accounts.
  • Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    14·
    4 hours ago

    <tinfoil hat> Other corporate social media has also had “bugs” that delete or hide advertiser unfriendly content, with staff scrambling to go “oopsie!”. That ain’t a bug, they’re testing something. </tinfoil hat>

    • vertis@lemmy.ml
      6·
      3 hours ago

      I don’t think this is really tinfoil hat. I’d like to see they explain how it just happened to remove that subset and not other things.

  • Eddbopkins@lemmy.world
    5·
    4 hours ago

    Reddit is run by big business and greedy corporate America. When it went public for the stock price to make even more money then it did before, I left that place.

  • glitchdx@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    4 hours ago

    Did they? I just looked and my porn multi is still full of everything I expect it to be.

  • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    5·
    5 hours ago

    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)

  • Eyedust@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    15·
    8 hours ago

    Good news to me. I can watch reddit and twitter self destruct from the comfort of the Fediverse. Welcome home, fellow refugees.

  • molave@reddthat.com
    51·
    14 hours ago

    I don’t care about NSFW subs per se, but they’re useful canaries in the coal mine. If they’re gone gone, it’s a fine indicator of what’s about to come next.

    • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      3·
      49 minutes ago

      No, your canaries are already long dead. It’s long been a process when Reddit admins don’t want a sub to exist but it isn’t actually breaking any rules to laser focus on the moderators, ban them the moment they have an excuse, immediately ban the sub for being unmoderated, refuse to give it to a new mod via reddit request and ban any replacement subs for recreating a banned sub. Hell, r/GamingCircleJerk has been laughing about some right wing gaming memes sub having that done to it just a few weeks ago.

      They only care about it not looking like they are just nuking subs they don’t like is because they don’t want to scare off other users who might get antsy about having a community under those sorts of capricious admins.

      This sounds a lot like an automation of that process that misfired. That they were all specifically banned for being “unmoderated” is what jumps out to me as telling.

  • whytho@lemm.eeEnglish
    24·
    14 hours ago

    this was literally why i still kinda used reddit. welp hello lemmynsfw!