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[-] Spzi@lemmy.click 111 points 2 years ago
  • 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 56 points 2 years ago

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.

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[-] EvilColeslaw@kbin.social 50 points 2 years ago

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.

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[-] Killer_Tree@beehaw.org 39 points 2 years ago

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 13 points 2 years 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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[-] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 30 points 2 years ago

r/Wellthatsucks is now a subreddit about vacuum cleaners.

fucking lmao.

[-] Helldiver_M@kbin.social 28 points 2 years ago

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

[-] GoatTnder@beehaw.org 26 points 2 years 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.

[-] Jaluvshuskies@kbin.social 19 points 2 years ago

Absolutely fucking glorious!

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

[-] LaggyKar@programming.dev 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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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[-] mack123@kbin.social 12 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Sendbeer@beehaw.org 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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.

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[-] BakoBitz@kbin.social 79 points 2 years ago

@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 49 points 2 years ago

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 18 points 2 years ago

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 14 points 2 years 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 13 points 2 years ago

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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[-] itmightbethew@beehaw.org 23 points 2 years 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

[-] NRVulture@kbin.social 19 points 2 years ago

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

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[-] CorvusNyx@beehaw.org 60 points 2 years 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.

[-] RotaryKeyboard@lemmy.ninja 51 points 2 years ago

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 30 points 2 years ago

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

[-] RotaryKeyboard@lemmy.ninja 11 points 2 years ago

There’s no end in sight.

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[-] Trebach@kbin.social 20 points 2 years ago

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

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 46 points 2 years ago

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 27 points 2 years ago

Upvoted even though I hate this comment

[-] GraceGH@beehaw.org 14 points 2 years ago

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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[-] jursed@beehaw.org 41 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] LimitedBrain@beehaw.org 27 points 2 years ago

My friend is no longer using reddit because his front page is mostly porn now (and the default app sucks at hiding it). So I got him to switch to lemmy :)

But if anything, this is an even better protest. Much more effective and hard to deal with

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[-] ElysiumXII@beehaw.org 18 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Liempong_pagong@beehaw.org 12 points 2 years ago

I just peeped. So many are clueless and simping to spez

[-] ElysiumXII@beehaw.org 13 points 2 years ago

Big Corpo simping is ultra cringe

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[-] mr_strange@discuss.tchncs.de 41 points 2 years ago

r/Wellthatsucks is now a subreddit about vacuum cleaners.

Made my day.

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[-] Wage_Slave@kbin.social 40 points 2 years ago

"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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[-] Dusty@lemmy.dustybeer.com 38 points 2 years ago

r/Wellthatsucks is now a subreddit about vacuum cleaners.

I love it

[-] Kuroneko@beehaw.org 37 points 2 years ago

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

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[-] LootGoblin42@beehaw.org 29 points 2 years ago

Haven't been back to reddit since i joined lemmy. I like it here.

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[-] tool@r.rosettast0ned.com 26 points 2 years ago

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

[-] xavier666@lemm.ee 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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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[-] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 22 points 2 years 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 15 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Wahots@pawb.social 19 points 2 years ago

It's funny for about 10 minutes, then you realize it's all John Oliver posts, and it might as well be a private sun again. It's working. Lots of my subs are also paralyzed by reddit news and spez being an asshole, so there's not top much going on for my subs, save for a select few, like some gardening ones. Haven't found a replacement yet for those :(

[-] Swallowtail@beehaw.org 12 points 2 years ago

Beehaw has a gardening sub. Contribute and spread the word!

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[-] reric88@beehaw.org 14 points 2 years ago

Same, but I refuse to give them my traffic.

[-] Casmael@geddit.social 11 points 2 years ago

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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[-] Die4Ever@programming.dev 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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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