If their goal was banning porn and trans sub's, they are either slow rolling it or doing a terrible job. There is plenty of porn unbanned, and r/transgonewild is still up. I guess we'll have to wait and see though.
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Reddit has slowly banned everything that drove ppl to it
Drugs prob saved my friends and I, we never had a bad situation because of reddit I knew dosages, I knew not to do what old top posts had done, just lowered anxiety and got me not to be stupid.
Basic harm prevention, we were always hydrated, not reading horror stories and seeing all that advice would've made me not even think of it
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People thought this was a slow ban rollout. Looks like now they are ripping off the bandaid.
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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.
Jd is that you shouldn't you be at the white house?
I'm the people's politician
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My thoughts? I hope they feel welcome here.
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?
All them red states have made it illegal to visit pornhub etc.. without providing I.d. you know just how meth isn't a thing now that you have to show i.d. to get cold medicine. Shit gonna be real weird round here if this course stays.
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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?
Go ask Tumblr how removing the porn went.
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?
Don't kink shame
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RIP Reddit
I will love seeing them try to ban noncredibledefense for having LGBTQIA+ flag on it's profile, having a lot of r34 with planes (if you don't know the sub, just don't try to imagine, it will hurt your brain XD), having some gory content (like the meat cube and once again don't try to imagine XD).
And they are pro-NATO which is something the current administration is not really fond of (including Musk who has been mocked for multiple weeks after his speech about drones vs planes...).
If it really happens, all 400k NCD readers, there is a big NCD community on lemmy so Welcome!
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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.
It's almost like the free speech absolutists only really cared about allowing one specific type of speech.
Damn removing the r34 subreddit really is the end of an era.
its not just anime porn. Multiple body part specific subs have been banned despite being actively moderated. I think it's a poem ban plus any thing that might be a bad look to the New Admin
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My thoughts? Stupid that they had not left yet.
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
you're not wrong but Lemmy just doesn't have the pop to get over the early adopters curve yet. This could very well do it though with how much people love their porn.
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.
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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.
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
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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.
"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"
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."
confusion comes from not knowing if youll get all content, most give you all content
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However, if they become regulars, I think they eventually find communities they’d rather identify with.
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.
I did the hop for mastodon but that was mostly because I learned an instance can set a higher character limit and I absolutely hate fucking threads of tweets.
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One of us...
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THIS ^^^