• Lodra@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    I can’t blame reddit admins on this one. I support the protest and users shifting to Lemmy. But the sudden NSFW content is clearly going to get reddit to take action. Just the obvious response in my opinion. Just like killing third party apps causes a user base to leave. 🤷‍♂

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      1 year ago

      But admins had previously said that reddit should be for the communities, and the communities voted to allow NSFW.

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        1 year ago

        Obviously Reddit is going to retain strong control over the default subs. Personally I miss all the NSFW content on the frontpage, but when I saw all these subs making a statement with it, I knew immediately that it wouldn’t end well for them.

        It was a good protest, but anyone surprised that Reddit removed those mods is naive.

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      though that’s the whole point of reddit ? if you don’t like a community, just make a new one. Like people feel like r/childfree is too aggressive, so they make r/truechildfree

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      Sure, but it’s not as if this exact thing hasn’t happened before and didn’t play out at all like this. Even before this controversy.

      And then you also to have to consider that /r/mildlyinteresting didn’t suddenly shift to NSFW, that was /r/interestingasfuck and they don’t seem to have changed anything?