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.

  • molave@reddthat.com
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    4 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
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    4 hours ago

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

    • derpgon@programming.dev
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      5 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
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    10 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 :(

    • delgato@sh.itjust.works
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      10 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
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          3 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 Metzer’s blog, since you hear so much about Tim Leary and Ram Dass but Metzer was right there with 'em.

      • codenul@lemmy.ml
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        6 hours ago

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

      • hector@sh.itjust.works
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        10 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)

  • Hillmarsh@lemm.ee
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    10 hours ago

    Terrible choice caving into the pseudo-moralists, but they’ve been going down a bad path for a long time. They should’ve looked at the cautionary tale of Tumblr before committing this own goal. Making sweeping changes to fit in with corporate agendas may be popular among their own class, but it also has the longer-term effect of sacrificing the user base. And they’ve been hemorrhaging for a while anyway. Where do they think their future profits will come from?

  • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
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    10 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.