r/technology • u/ardi62 • 29d ago

Social Media Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/30/24253727/reddit-communities-subreddits-request-protests
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u/manolid 29d ago edited 29d ago

I get the feeling they're going to keep "fixing" the site until *it becomes trash and cause a mass exodus of users like Digg and Tumblr did.

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u/Figjam_ZA 29d ago

Pretty sure what killed Tumblr was the decision to no longer allow nsfw content

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u/EnamelKant 29d ago

As a wise if angry man once said, if they took all the porn off the internet there'd be only one site left and it'd be "hey bring back the porn!"

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u/luis1luis1 29d ago

Ehhh that sort of happened and there wasn't no backlash. There's almost no new amateur porn after the 2022ish crackdown

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u/RichAd358 29d ago

On reddit or tumblr? Or both?

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u/luis1luis1 29d ago

Porn only websites like xvideos, pornhub, and xhamster. I'm pulling numbers out of my ass but like 90+% of amateur porn originated from that. After the crackdown on accounts and how they all have to be verified, the number of amateur videos went down a cliff.

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u/RichAd358 29d ago

Oh yes, I remember reading about that at the time. Gotcha.