this post was submitted on 05 Feb 2025
2 points (100.0% liked)

Technology

69041 readers
3678 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
technopagan@lemmy.world
L4s@lemmy.world
L3s@hackingne.ws
L4s@hackingne.ws
2
Reddit is purging NSFW subs as well as trans-related subreddits (old.reddit.com)
submitted 2 months ago by cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world
11 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/37090761

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 is banned too. Definitely feels politically motivated.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] sajhino@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (6 children)

Yeah a lot of banned nsfw subs today at /r/BannedSubs. People are saying it's because next week Reddit is gonna announce their Q4 earnings and want to attract more investors and advertisers to their "cleaner" site. Lame-ass puritans, I'd say.

edit: Looks like the bans have been reversed. A reddit admin claimed it was "a bug". Bruh, what kind of bug would only affect veeeery specific nsfw and political subreddits lmao.

[โ€“] darreninthenet@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 2 months ago

If I had to guess, they are testing the ability to switch these off in anticipation of more Trumpian laws being passed

load more comments (5 replies)