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I think it would probably kill Reddit like it killed Tumblr, so that's probably a good idea.

DSingularity 6y ago
You’re kidding right? Reddit is not being used exclusively for porn. Why would communities like r/politics or r/WSB leave because pornography was banned?
- echelon 6y ago
  Half of the profiles I see posting in general subs are "restricted/18+". If I look at post histories of interesting comments, I more often than not find porn, sex+ communities, and even furry fandom. The Reddit community seethes with pornography. And there's nothing wrong with this. Killing it would put a huge damper on the userbase.
  - DSingularity 6y ago
    I’ll start checking I guess but I’m honestly surprised to read that statistic. Sincere question: how do we determine that there is nothing wrong with facilitating access to pornography? Shouldn’t we study things of this nature before we sanction them?
    - ta8645 6y ago
      We should default to permissibility not to restriction. If you want something restricted it should be on you to prove that it's harmful enough to deprive your fellow man of the freedom necessary to choose for themselves.
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dangwu 6y ago
I don’t know of anyone that uses Reddit primarily for porn. I think it’d be totally fine.
- new_guy 6y ago
  Sample size of one but I use it for porn.
  - riffraff 6y ago
    Forgive my question, but what does Reddit offer on this that popular porn-only platforms don't? I guess very specific/niche topics?
- afavour 6y ago
  I have zero doubt there any plenty of people that use Reddit primarily for porn. Consider that perhaps not everyone you know talks openly about their porn habits.
- banana_giraffe 6y ago
  Even after this change /r/all/new is mostly NSFW stuff. One of my jobs had me maintaining a real time feed of reddit. Making a SFW version to demo was half the job.
  - dangwu 6y ago
    And /r/all/top has basically zero NSFW stuff. There seems to be a ton of NSFW spam that gets seen by much smaller audiences.
    - spideymans 6y ago
      Any chance that Reddit is filtering /r/all/top/?
      - dangwu 6y ago
        Nope - definitely saw at least one in the first page.
whateveracct 6y ago
Tumblr is plenty alive
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flukus 6y ago
Tumblr still has plenty of porn, they've just crippled the UI and made it even less usable if you want the 18+ content. Given the starting point of how bad the interface already was this was quite an achievement.

You’re kidding right? Reddit is not being used exclusively for porn. Why would communities like r/politics or r/WSB leave because pornography was banned?

echelon 6y ago
Half of the profiles I see posting in general subs are "restricted/18+". If I look at post histories of interesting comments, I more often than not find porn, sex+ communities, and even furry fandom. The Reddit community seethes with pornography. And there's nothing wrong with this. Killing it would put a huge damper on the userbase.
- DSingularity 6y ago
  I’ll start checking I guess but I’m honestly surprised to read that statistic. Sincere question: how do we determine that there is nothing wrong with facilitating access to pornography? Shouldn’t we study things of this nature before we sanction them?
  - ta8645 6y ago
    We should default to permissibility not to restriction. If you want something restricted it should be on you to prove that it's harmful enough to deprive your fellow man of the freedom necessary to choose for themselves.
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dangwu 6y ago

I don’t know of anyone that uses Reddit primarily for porn. I think it’d be totally fine.

new_guy 6y ago
Sample size of one but I use it for porn.
- riffraff 6y ago
  Forgive my question, but what does Reddit offer on this that popular porn-only platforms don't? I guess very specific/niche topics?
afavour 6y ago
I have zero doubt there any plenty of people that use Reddit primarily for porn. Consider that perhaps not everyone you know talks openly about their porn habits.
banana_giraffe 6y ago
Even after this change /r/all/new is mostly NSFW stuff. One of my jobs had me maintaining a real time feed of reddit. Making a SFW version to demo was half the job.
- dangwu 6y ago
  And /r/all/top has basically zero NSFW stuff. There seems to be a ton of NSFW spam that gets seen by much smaller audiences.
  - spideymans 6y ago
    Any chance that Reddit is filtering /r/all/top/?
    - dangwu 6y ago
      Nope - definitely saw at least one in the first page.

whateveracct 6y ago

Tumblr is plenty alive

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flukus 6y ago

Tumblr still has plenty of porn, they've just crippled the UI and made it even less usable if you want the 18+ content. Given the starting point of how bad the interface already was this was quite an achievement.