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.

  • Eyedust@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    6·
    3 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
    38·
    8 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.

  • whytho@lemm.eeEnglish
    13·
    9 hours ago

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

    • derpgon@programming.dev
      19·
      10 hours ago

      Since when is drinking rum, singing sea shanties, and downloading content hidden behind a monthly subscription in 4k illegal?

  • hector@sh.itjust.works
    321·
    14 hours ago

    r/drugs has been banned?? That was one of my favorite place on Reddit back in the days :(I haven’t found a community for that here :(

    (Edit: Drug Reddit was amaziiing, especially r/shrooms r/trees r/dxm | can’t really start a community because I’m not regular enough in this area, I guess that’s a good thing)

    • delgato@sh.itjust.works
      16·
      14 hours ago

      Same, when I was a teenager it was Erowid for all my questions, then r/drugs in college. I also loved r/tooktoomuch, which had the best life lessons to offer.

        • Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works
          3·
          7 hours ago

          Erowid is still good, though I wish there was a little more info about current operations and projects outside of maintaining the experience report database. As far as I can tell, both Erowid Monthly and Erowid Extracts are dead, Ask Erowid is dead, DrugsData is not currently receiving samples, etc.

          There’s reason to play some stuff close to the chest, obviously, but there used to be more activity than just the experience database, and it’s sad to see the other functions languish. But as a repository of drug information it’s still pretty great.

          A newer good harm reduction/info site is tripsit.me, which also has a trip sit via chat service. Can’t speak to the quality of the chat service, over something like the Fireside Project which has been around for a while now, but the infosheets on tripsit are pretty good.

          Edit: Ugh, going through the other Erowid sections again…beginning to think I need to step up and see if they want more volunteers. Lots of dead links where Wayback can probably help a ton, the Character vault can probably be expanded quite a bit, etc. But this all might just be the focus moving on a bit. I just wanted to see Ralph Metzner’s blog, since you hear so much about Tim Leary and Ram Dass but Metzner was right there with 'em.

      • codenul@lemmy.ml
        2·
        11 hours ago

        havent heard of ‘Erowid’ in a minute. Great memories back then, simpler times

      • hector@sh.itjust.works
        5·
        14 hours ago

        I learned all the thing that kept me safe on there too; and the life story were interesting and also the trip reports and experiment!

        This was something I couldn’t get IRL until a long time, and still, is not very active today (my friends and I are all busy we can’t really experiment !! Maybe next time we see each other)

  • inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world
    1784·
    19 hours ago

    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.

    • dumples@midwest.socialEnglish
      842·
      19 hours ago

      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

      • SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world
        11·
        15 hours ago

        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.

        • dumples@midwest.socialEnglish
          9·
          14 hours ago

          Really anything that shows or hints that any part of their “natural” order is something created. Gender is a big one but anything

      • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
        18·
        19 hours ago

        it’s telling that they target trans content; but leave gay content alone.

        • dumples@midwest.socialEnglish
          25·
          18 hours ago

          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

          • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
            151·
            18 hours ago

            it’s sad, but expected from conservatives; the real sadness is an “ally” like biden who didn’t enact the equal rights amendment that would help protect trans people from the legal version of this shit and then very publicly pretended that he did.

        • SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world
          8·
          15 hours ago

          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.

    • dontbelasagne@lemmy.world
      15·
      15 hours ago

      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.

    • marcie (she/her)@lemmy.ml
      14·
      19 hours ago

      I’m currently discussing with people about mirroring it somewhere on lemmy, but there is also Transbucket which already exists as its own independent website.

    • billwashere@lemmy.worldEnglish
      316·
      16 hours ago

      Well it is genitals but the purpose is entirely different. I don’t agree with it but I can at least see the logic.

      • Ech@lemm.eeEnglish
        282·
        16 hours ago

        By that “logic”, all obgyn’s are sex workers. It’s shit justification for bigotry and shouldn’t be given any credence whatsoever.

        • billwashere@lemmy.worldEnglish
          115·
          16 hours ago

          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.

          • inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world
            162·
            15 hours ago

            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.

            • billwashere@lemmy.worldEnglish
              26·
              14 hours ago

              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.

    • BrundleFly2077@sh.itjust.works
      417·
      18 hours ago

      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.

      • chuckleslord@lemmy.world
        174·
        17 hours ago

        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.

        • BrundleFly2077@sh.itjust.works
          16·
          14 hours ago

          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 🫡

          • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world
            9·
            13 hours ago

            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.

            • BrundleFly2077@sh.itjust.works
              1·
              5 hours ago

              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”.

      • Draces@lemmy.world
        183·
        17 hours ago

        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

  • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
    23·
    15 hours ago

    My guess is that they’re expecting some new federal anti-porn legislation and are prepping for that. Porn is already basically outlawed in much of the south, (if not explicitly, then implicitly due to how many hoops porn makers need to jump through), and republicans have made it clear that they want to bring conservative policies at the federal level so liberal states can’t overrule them.

    • Wxnzxn@lemmy.ml
      124·
      21 hours ago

      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.