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[–] Spzi@lemmy.click 84 points 1 year ago (17 children)
  • Some of the biggest communities like r/pics, r/aww, and r/GIF decided to post John Oliver pictures and GIFs. In a tweet, Oliver approved this move.
  • In the case of r/aww, the community is also allowed to post pictures of Chiijohn.
  • r/iPhone decided to post pictures celebrating “dashing” Tim Cook.
  • r/Shitposting banned posts with the letter k.
  • r/Wellthatsucks is now a subreddit about vacuum cleaners.
  • r/Nofans is now a passive PC cooler subreddit.
  • r/Interestingasfuck removed a lot of all rules apart from asking members to not break site-wide rules.
  • r/Memes is allowing only Medieval / Landed Gentry memes. This is in response to Huffman’s “Landed Gentry” comment about protesting subreddits.
  • r/PokemonGo is now allowing pictures of John Oliver, Pikachu, or Spark.
  • r/Horny is now a “Christian Minecraft server.”
  • r/Steam members are posting about actual steam.
  • r/HarryPotter is now referring to Huffman as Voldemort.
  • Some subreddits such as r/Showerthoughts are determining close days for the community.

Glorious.

[–] bruzie@lemmy.nz 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

r/formula1 is reopening as NSFW to "comply to the fullest extent of our abilities with these changes":

Formula 1 is inherently dangerous. Crashes and injuries are not uncommon - some even with fatal results. These incidents are discussed on r/formula1, and videos, images and other media are posted following these events.

Formula 1 includes messaging and sponsors that are connected to alcohol, tobacco and gambling - all of which are legislatively prohibited or age restricted in various locations. We cannot prevent these from being displayed to underaged users, as they are incorporated in general Formula 1 imagery and content.

Formula 1 is known for, both in the past and today, to include certain risque imagery that fall within the NSFW space.

Reddit’s User Agreement states that “Children under the age of 13 are not allowed to create an Account or otherwise use the Services.” - As such it stands to reason that persons under legal age participate in r/formula1.

Switching our classification means Reddit’s age verification shields underage users from being exposed to content considered harmful.

[–] Elegast@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

That's absolutely fantastic lmao

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[–] EvilColeslaw@kbin.social 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

One of the legal advice subs -- I can't remember which -- was going forward requiring post approval from mods because they value community safety. But as they are unpaid volunteers they estimate it could take up to 14 days for post approval.

[–] el-sapo@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

I think that was /r/scams. Their post was fantastic

[–] Killer_Tree@beehaw.org 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thank you for the rundown! It almost makes me want to go back and take a look at the shit show... But tis a silly place and I shant be going back.

[–] sisyphean@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago

Trust me, the shit show is glorious. I even instinctively upvoted a couple of medieval memes but quickly realized what I was doing and closed the tab.

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[–] GoatTnder@beehaw.org 18 points 1 year ago

/r/woodworking is debating going back to normal, or posting pictures of Norm Abrams and Nick Offerman. I'll let you guess which one is winning.

[–] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 13 points 1 year ago

r/Wellthatsucks is now a subreddit about vacuum cleaners.

fucking lmao.

[–] LaggyKar@programming.dev 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

r/Nofans is now a passive PC cooler subreddit.

That should be a nice complement to r/onlyfans, which has previously refocused to pictures of fans (though it's still private)

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[–] Helldiver_M@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

/r/Piracy also celebrated the fact that reddit officially endorsed them.

[–] Jaluvshuskies@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

Absolutely fucking glorious!

It makes me so happy seeing reddit come together against this bullshit

[–] Sendbeer@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Shitposting is funny because the auto mod they are using to remove posts cites removing the post in order to save bandwidth for Reddit. The auto mod post is much longer than post being removed and contains K's. I found it funny anyway.

[–] mack123@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

It is like watching a slow train wreck. You know you should just look away, but you just cannot.

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[–] BakoBitz@kbin.social 56 points 1 year ago (4 children)

@itmightbethew These are all great but /r/interestingasfuck seems to have hit on something that could have a real impact: Reddit apparently can't sell advertising on NSFW subs. Imagine if /r/pics and /r/aww and other tip subs just opened themselves up to whatever, it would down Reddit in porn and destroy the site's reputation. I'm sure the admins would try to force them back to SFW, but it could be a powerful tactic.

[–] MagicShel@programming.dev 38 points 1 year ago (5 children)

What are the admins going to do? Moderate? If the moderators are approving NSFW posts, the sub is NSFW... Heck I'm not sure if they have to go that far. On r/cigars every single post is NSFW because cigars are Satan. Just do that to all the subs so every single post requires you to click to reveal the NSFW content. It'll be like NSFW roulette. Heads, it's a helpful guide to setting up a service on the cloud. Tails, it's goatse.

[–] nzodd@beehaw.org 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Throw in some random gore there for the nuclear option. NSFL is NSFW. And reddit never bothered to distinguish the two so let them down in yet more of their own poor decisions

[–] WiseThat@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

Worse than that, Reddit banned all the NSFW subs from /all but DIDN'T ban the NSFL sub. So now instead of and unfiltered /all, with a mix of all the best everything, it's now a curated collection of no porn and the occasional gore.

[–] jivandabeast@lemmy.browntown.dev 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ridiculous, one day i logged into r/cigars, saw all the nsfw banners and had to do a double take on whether i was on the right sub

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[–] agentsquirrel@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

The tobacco pipe subs are NSFW as well. This was forced on them a few years ago by the admins as they seem to have a big thing against tobacco, but subs for substances much more harmful, like cocaine, are not NSFW.

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[–] NRVulture@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago

That NSFW post on r/interestingasfuck has reached r/all lmfao

[–] itmightbethew@beehaw.org 14 points 1 year ago

You're dead right. If $$$ are Spez's priority then that's what we should target. A knock on effect is that it catches the attention of the casual redditor. I have a couple friends who read reddit but were clueless on these issues. Until the NSFW content. One DM'd me tonight

""I was on lunch, and I was like "WTF happened to my reddit feed??""

so that's working

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[–] CorvusNyx@beehaw.org 51 points 1 year ago

Big mistake to make on the Internet is to call the Internet’s bluff if you’re at the centre of a controversy. It’s not unlike the Streisand Effect.

[–] Kuroneko@beehaw.org 33 points 1 year ago

There’s some real r/MaliciousCompliance stuff going on and I love it.

[–] RotaryKeyboard@lemmy.ninja 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You just know that John Oliver is sitting at home right now laughing his ass off at the memes, and then screaming into a pillow because he can’t talk about it anywhere due to the writer’s strike.

[–] YolkBrushWork402@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How's the writer's strike going anyways? Is there any updates about it?

[–] RotaryKeyboard@lemmy.ninja 11 points 1 year ago

There’s no end in sight.

[–] EveningPancakes@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No end in sight and SAG might be up next at the end of the month. They're in negotiations right now.

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[–] Trebach@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

He laughed and then tweeted some more source material for them to run with. He's loving this.

[–] mr_strange@discuss.tchncs.de 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

r/Wellthatsucks is now a subreddit about vacuum cleaners.

Made my day.

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[–] Dusty@lemmy.dustybeer.com 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

r/Wellthatsucks is now a subreddit about vacuum cleaners.

I love it

[–] xXxOxhamxXx@beehaw.org 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Dusty@lemmy.dustybeer.com 7 points 1 year ago

Well well well, what a nice vacuum cleaner!

[–] Wage_Slave@kbin.social 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"r/Horny is now a “Christian Minecraft server.”

That shit is genius. Not a fan of all this mess. But it has led to new and cool places while creating some funny as hell content with the fallout.

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[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

On /r/interestingasfuck I just saw a woman with a speculum holding her ass open as someone else poured milk and cereal into it. Yes they ate it.

So that's my day so far

[–] admin@thegarden.land 13 points 1 year ago

Upvoted even though I hate this comment

[–] GraceGH@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Wow that's a classic! I haven't seen that video in the wild since the early internet!

There might be something wrong with me for that to be nostalgic...

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[–] tool@r.rosettast0ned.com 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This has very strong "I'm not touching you!" energy and I'm all about it.

[–] xavier666@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Reminds me of the Sherlock Holmes movie

W: "Remove that stick from my face"

SH: "It's not in your face; it's in my hand"

W: "Okay, remove what's in your hand from my face"

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[–] jursed@beehaw.org 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know that this probably won't work as stubbornly idiotic as Huffman seems to be doubling down but god isn't that amazing.

What's fascinating is the sudden increase of people whining about this. If this kind of stuff bothers them imagine how bad it is when these moderators leave completely? I know a subreddit based on interesting things have completely lowered their standards as a protest and it shows.

[–] ElysiumXII@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you want to see people really whine, just go on r/JustUnsubbed, you'll see a bunch of people moaning and groaning about this

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[–] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 year ago

The company even sent messages to moderators saying that they will be removed if they all continue to particulate in the blackout.

that typo, LOL.

[–] xavier666@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

ngl, all this makes me want to go back to reddit

[–] reric88@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same, but I refuse to give them my traffic.

[–] Casmael@geddit.social 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yeah same I went cold turkey off reddit for like 24 hours before I realised not going there was a big improvement. Real shame as once upon a time it was a great place to get unique perspectives on interesting issues. Will be missed.

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[–] Death2lois@lemmy.one 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've been going over and upvoting all this shit I can before my Joey app stops working. I am easily amused, r/Well that sucks has had me laughing every time it pops up.

[–] Die4Ever@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This stuff is funny, but that's the problem, Redditors love funny events like The Snap, and they love drama and controversy

You can see it's not hurting Reddit at all maybe even helping them

https://blackout.photon-reddit.com/

The real solution is to share links to Lemmy communities as replacements and just leave Reddit, turn off whatever auto moderation tools they have and just let the place burn, or maybe even worse be overly strict on moderation lol

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[–] zombiehousefly@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

My favourite one is anime_titties has a poll about whether to continue with their world political topics or change to a highly moderated pic forum of anime boobs.

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