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Following changes to its API access, users are forced to log in on the official Reddit app if they want to view NSFW content on mobile.

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[–] Ryan213 324 points 1 year ago (11 children)
[–] ArchTemperedKoala 148 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Birchoff 48 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] nslatz 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 86 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've heard it was a popular discussion place people would go to. Even called the front page of the internet because it was the first and best source for compiled news and information. Its CEO had some quotes that showed how important free flow of information was.

"I don't think we should silence people just because their viewpoints are something we disagree with. There is value in the conversation, and we as a society need to confront these issues. This is an incredibly complex topic, and I'm sure our thinking will continue to evolve."

"We are not the thought police. It's not the role of a private company to decide what people can and cannot say."

He was also forward thinking in designing an open forum, controlled by individuals.

"Our approach to governance is that communities can set appropriate standards around language for themselves. Many communities have rules around speech that are more restrictive than our own, and we fully support those rules."

Wait, that sounds more like the Fediverse.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

A miserable pile of secrets

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[–] DrMango 284 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Not just porn! Since reddit only has one such tag you can apply to posts, many subreddits were using the NSFW tag for a wider variety of reasons such as spoilers, content which may contain unsettling material (aka "triggers"), and more!

[–] meldroc 46 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The stoners on Reddit got screwed - many of the weed subs got the banhammer, and the rest got NSFW'd because spez wants Reddit as G-rated as Disney for the IPO.

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[–] trifictional 145 points 1 year ago (5 children)

This is the true final blow to third party apps.

I noticed they did something similar to the mobile website. Even with appropriate content blockers there’s absolutely no way you can see sexually explicit content on mobile without their app.

[–] Zectivi 46 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

Request the desktop site. Just tried it in Firefox on Android and it no longer says to open in app.

Or use old.reddit.com too.

[–] Anders429 64 points 1 year ago

Or don't use it.

[–] solidgrue 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Or use old.reddit.com too.

Interesting calculus here. Before the r/pocalyspe I'd have said old-reddit was on a 3 month clock to being summarily retired

They also likely lost way more users than they anticipated through the blackouts, and might just let old-reddit be to protect their numbers until the IPO. As long as its not on default Main page, I doubt the advertisers will care. They'll kill it when they can do so quickly and quietly

[–] trifictional 24 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Reddit doesn’t respect that on iPhones through any browser.

So anti consumer it hurts.

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[–] bakaraka 138 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Shit platform hits rock bottom and continues digging

[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] RetroEvolute 54 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Honestly, it seems what Reddit has been doing lately is far worse than anything Digg ever did. 🤷‍♂️ Digg basically just made a bunch of bad design decisions primarily but not entirely to please investors, and the majority of changes were not welcomed by the community.

Reddit is straight up disrespecting their userbase and telling them to suck a fat one and deal with it, holding to their miserable decisions while openly suggesting their userbase is too weak to go anywhere else... And also doing so primarily to please misguided investors.

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[–] onionbaggage 122 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Dozens of people still use Tumblr!

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tumblr has walked back the ban with their new ownership

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It turns out that banning porn makes advertisers happier, but you sell a lot less ads overall because you have nobody to advertise to.

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[–] [email protected] 106 points 1 year ago (6 children)

You still can if you're a subreddit mod, so I just did this:

  1. Create your own private sub
  2. You become a mod! Yay!
  3. NSFW now works on 3rd party app
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[–] magnolia_mayhem 72 points 1 year ago (9 children)

People should start mirroring Reddit porn to the appropriate fedi hubs. Porn is how tech grows; hate it or love it.

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[–] trouser_mouse 66 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I always struggled with looking at the porn because my erection would get in the way. Thank you for reading and have a great day

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Devastated at the fact that this comment rhymes.

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[–] Hazdaz 65 points 1 year ago (39 children)

RIP In Pieces Reddit. This is what will finally kill that site.

So how's the pr0n scene on Lemmy? Asking for a friend.

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[–] Methylman 59 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Remember to leave a review on the official reddit app regarding it's porno abilities - if there's anything google/iOS app stores love more than anything it's an abundance of apps dedicated to viewing porn

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[–] saltybrownsfan 55 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That was like, half the reason I used reddit, lol. Otherwise it's just a shithole full of "aHkshUaly" people.

Take your clothes off, or give me something actually interesting and insightful to read, or fuck right off.

[–] stevegoodsex 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Brains or butthole, otherwise keep walking.

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[–] NAETE 52 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Lmao this puritanical turn from all these tech companies over the last 5-6 years I don't get it. All they are going to do is speed self-immolation. What is happening to the internet.

[–] Lenins2ndCat 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

All companies that go to IPO purge their porn content beforehand unless they are dedicated pornography businesses, and even those have a massive shakeup of what content is and is not allowed (pornhub and onlyfans being examples). It's not because they're "puritanical". When a company IPOs it opens itself up to share purchases but what most people miss is that it also opens itself up to shortselling, this is essentially a shares "downvote" where the person shorting a company can make money if the company's value goes down.

Negative press causes a company's value to go down. And the people that own the press are the financial industry, they use and weaponise their media contacts and friends to achieve financial outcomes very successfully.

So when a company IPOs one of the things it does is seek to remove all possible things on a service that can be weaponised as negative press against the company in order for people to profit off of shortselling the drop in value this causes in the market.

The situation is that Reddit and Imgur have a sizeable amount of likely illegal pornographic content on their servers.

Their options are:

  • To ban all the porn. Which it looks like they are trying to do. On paper this is the best option for investors, as it protects the investment. However in the real world this can piss off the userbase and tank the website by losing a sizeable amount of users (see Tumblr).

  • To continue without any changes. This is also guarantees the investment tanking, all it takes is one Anderson Cooper style jailbait investigation into Reddit to destroy the investment. I guarantee that there is a significant amount of underage content uploaded to it, certainly enough to stir up a shitstorm in the media.

  • To implement proper age verification for pornographic content, like pornhub and onlyfans did. But in the investment world it is unpopular to be seen as a person that invests in pornography, the investors don't want it to be public knowledge that they are investing in a porn website in some way and Reddit implementing proper verification processes will make it clear that Reddit is a pornography business. Thus also devaluing the investment.

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[–] negativeyoda 42 points 1 year ago (2 children)

can't look at anything on most 3rd party apps to be fair....

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

We all know what happened to Tumblr right?

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://old.reddit.com/ still seems to work, and that one doesn't force you to use the app or login.

[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 year ago (10 children)

The grim reaper is coming for old.reddit.com any day now.

[–] Sarcastik 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's already been leaked they're killing off everything outside of the official app in phases. Only a matter of time.

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[–] Tabboo 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Spez is looking after /r/anal harder than anyone else is.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago

So reddit continues to fight its own user base...

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (14 children)

Wait you can even view reddit on a 3rd party app at all? Which app playoffs the $10m to still work with reddit?

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

Oh no! Anyways...

[–] Cyyy 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

yes you can. you just have to be a moderator of ANY subreddit. so if you create your own subreddit or moderate already one, nsfw is still enabled.

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[–] MonsieurArchi 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Porn is the reason, the internet is so popular. It's basically a driving force!

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[–] Nahaelem 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It is ultimately a way to further cripple 3rd part apps. Thus, making the official Reddit app look better by comparison. It’s not certain if Reddit will get rid of porn, because while porn sub-reddits don’t generate ad revenue, a not insignificant portion of Reddit’s user-base visit porn sub-reddits, making Reddit a good one-stop-shop for a user’s media related need. So while porn doesn’t generate ad revenue, it brings users, users who also visit other non-porn sub-reddits that do.

[–] brap_gobbo 24 points 1 year ago

Which is kind of funny because one of the reasons Reddit got so big was because of the pornography

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It killed tumblr, now it's after reddit.

[–] jawbrakelong 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

PSA: Hardened browsers (desktop or mobile) are still an option. I know it isn't but it would be difficult to convince me that the official app is better than even that.

TLDR: Hhhhhe he said "hardended." uh heh heh...

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