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.
People are forgetting this all springs from the Heritage Foundation and Project 2025.
THEY are the ones pulling the strings behind Trump. The corporations and billionaires funding that (not Musk) that are shelling out the cash and have been since the Reagan era.
Folks who think that the Pornhub ban in a few states and the ID request in others is the new norm are going to be in for a surprise when a nationwide ban gets passed shortly. That has always been on the agenda for them.
It’s a Christian Extremist agenda (think Handmaids Tale) and all you fuckers who voted for him or didn’t vote in retaliation allowed this shit to happen.
I cannot believe the amount shocked people I’ve ran across at work recently, who are Republicans who are still in denial and still think things are going to get better - or have some sort of bizarre belief that Trump is going to start suddenly making everything cheaper for everyone. Idiots!
Step 1: Ban porn.
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Profit
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I don’t see how banning porn accomplishes this. Women are the gatekeepers who get to decide whether or not a baby gets born and as a population grows wealthier and more educated the women tend to have less kids. Has very little to do with porn which is mostly watched by men.
The solution to not being like Japan is immigration. That’s why our population isn’t declining every year like Japan. Without current level of immigration, our population would be decreasing every year and we would be like Japan.
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Partially, probably.
More importantly, it’s about absolute control
When Trump won they realized they could use him. They spent the last 4 years pecking at his brain and writing up their dream bills for him to sign. There’s no way Trump is the instigator of the vast majority of what he’s signing.
Trump doesn’t even believe in 99% of the bullshit they’re having him sign. He just gets off on revenge and having a base of fucking morons that adore him as some kind of prophet.
He didn’t even put his hand on the bible to swear in. I didn’t even check on the cult logic for him not doing so.
They killed Roe v Wade already.
My thoughts? Stupid that they had not left yet.
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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.
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
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.
“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.
One of us…
well porn ppl all goto lemmynsfw anyways
Good point
Or yiffit!
I hope they are ready for the influx.
"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"
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.
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!
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
Isn’t NSFW stuff a big part of all reddit OC content and the reason many still have an account there?
I only still go to reddit for that on one account (in incognito). My main account has only recently logged back in for regular browsing (but I try not to comment and I only use old.reddit + res) because Reddit is where a huge amount of the information I’m trying to find online is still housed, game information, niche hobbies, etc… It may be rotting from the inside, but its corpse is still walking and talking, and until the situation gets bad enough people are going to continue using it. I only interact here, but with the nature of how small the communities are, and the fact that I use [All - Top -Past 6 hours] my front page is still basically just the same articles about every fucked up thing going on around me posted onto every instance so I see the same headlines and pictures of Trump almost a dozen times, interspersed with various fetish porn communities.
I see the same headlines and pictures of Trump almost a dozen times
Feel free to block mentions of him name, either on your app or using a uBlock filter: https://lemmy.world/post/24545370
I think the biggest worry could be the repetition. Seeing an article on anything once - be it Brazilian economy or Norwegian electric grid - is interesting and great, but seeing the same article 12 times in a day can get tedious.
This isn’t a problem with just Lemmy, but it’s where I see it as it’s mostly what I use.
I’d like to see a change to prevent this duplication, but I suspect it’d be challenging to merge comment histories and/or keep comments separated. Just, once I’ve seen a trump article, for sure, I don’t want to see that sad dreck another 11 times!
lol if i filtered out trump/musk posts and block the furry instances there would be nothing left!
Try sorting by scaled to see posts from smaller communities trying to grow.
Edit:
- Active uses the post votes, and latest comment time (limited to two days).
- Hot uses the post votes, and the post published time.
- Scaled is similar to Hot, but gives a boost to smaller / less active communities.
There is lots of stuff on lemmy outside of Trump/Musk and furries (tbh I think either I blocked the furries or somehow have not come across it for months now)
Thanks for posting this. I was wondering about a way to filter posts.
Does anyone know of any plug-in or app that removes photos of him and Musk? I want to stay informed, but goddamn am I sick of seeing their faces plastered on every article. Even reader mode keeps the photos in.
during the reddit blackout i tried tracking the general activity on reddit and the posts per day dropped by ~10% during that time while the comments per day dropped by ~20%.
When i looked where most posts and comments came from most of it was on porn and hookup communities. Lots of it was also obiously botted.
Always knew that porn on reddit was a big thing but i never realized the scope.
There are niche subs that don’t exist here. The popular, million+ subs are all trashed, like a NYC sized garbage truck and a couple whales exploded, together. That’s just Reddit post going public.
Even so, there are no well populated hobby or career sites here, for example. And sometimes Reddit still has the only spoiler gaming guide on obscure things.
I have no idea what is going on in sports anymore now that i don’t have Reddit. The fediverse is absolutely terrible for sports news
Even so, there are no well populated hobby or career sites here, for example
Well, there’s progress being made on some at least. I’m trying to breathe some life into !musicproduction@sh.itjust.works
Even so, there are no well populated hobby or career sites here, for example.
Unless your hobby is !selfhosted@lemmy.world or you’re a programmer or sysadmin.
There are definitely more active hobby subs than that. Yes, you might only see a dozen of names actively posting/commenting in that community, but it is an active community.
In mosta cases, the subs DO exist but there is lottle activity in them. The situation would probably be a lot better if some of the lurkers on here would post more regularly to their special-interest niche subs.
Isn’t NSFW stuff a big part of all reddit OC content and the reason many still have an account there?
If old.reddit.com ever stopped working, NSFW content would be my primary reason for downloading the app…lmao
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.
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Damn removing the r34 subreddit really is the end of an era.
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.
I don’t either but anyone thinking there havent been attempts to axe porn on reddit at the top levels they would be mistaken.
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.
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
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.
I have absolutely no idea what these companies are doing.
Are they afraid of Trump? Are they afraid of Musk? Are they afraid of the combination of both?
Idk, I thought two incompetent idiots like them would be no threat to the corpos of America, even in the oval office. But maybe I overestimated the corpos.
Or are they jumping on the band wagon voluntarily? It’s so weird to me…
My wife works in medical research for a company you’ve probably heard of. Talking about diversity is a big part of her job, not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because it’s scientifically necessary. If they don’t have a diverse population on a study, the data will be skewed.
She’s no longer allowed to talk about diversity. She’s not even allowed to say the word. She had to remove slides from a presentation she was giving.
Replace with the term “heterogeneous sample”. The prefix hetero- should comfort those snowflakes.
Why does she comply so willingly?
Not to pick on her, I get it, sort of, but maybe just “forget” to remove the slides?
Small acts of resistance pile up & those of us with even a crumb of privilege must speak & act now to protect those who don’t even have that.
It’s a valid question.
She pushed back to her managers and was told they’re following up with the legal department. So hopefully it gets fixed higher up.
Maybe you’re right that she should use this as an opportunity to resist, but that resistance wouldn’t make it outside of these little meetings.
I don’t want to be too hard on anybody, this is scary shit.
It’s just something to keep in mind.
Sorry that this is a dumb question but for any Americans out there: how is it that the federal government can control what state governments or private companies are doing in regards to even TALKING about diversity? Like, is it fully illegal to talk about it? Cause that seems way more far reaching than just removing the policies directly related to dei hiring.
And also, if it’s a private company why does the government even get a say in their specific policies?
What about euphemisms?
“We have to cast a wide net during the study to prevent the data from being skewed”
There will always be a way to maliciously comply, it’s just a question of how much shit you’ll get for doing so.
Fuck, I don’t remember the last time I wished an internet comment was fake this much.
Pencil-pushers live in a bubble, remember
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.
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.
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.
I got banned for 7 days for posting a Luigi cap
no cap
on god fr fr
I assume they will most likely not come over here because there are users like this mod:
Go ask Tumblr how removing the porn went.
Went away alongside with Tumblr users. Muppet who made this decision is probably well off though.
spez wants a cabinet position.
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
Erowid when I was younger. Then pill reports to make sure what I was getting was what I expected.
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/
RIP Reddit
