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I assume this will lead to Onlyfans's effective death, much as Tumblr's porn ban seems to have led to, or hastened, its death. Reddit seems to have resisted wh

by vwoolf 5y ago

I assume this will lead to Onlyfans's effective death, much as Tumblr's porn ban seems to have led to, or hastened, its death. Reddit seems to have resisted whatever calls it must be getting to eliminate porn. So far at least. It will ban or quarantine some heretical ideas, but porn is still there.

alpaca128 5y ago
Reddit doesn't let people pay directly for content. You can gift awards but those aren't really worth anything.
- SlowRobotAhead 5y ago
  > Reddit doesn't let people pay directly for content. You can gift awards but those aren't really worth anything. Worth noting this scenario is even less similar than as you wrote it. Not only can’t you pay content creators on Reddit, but the awards, are you paying Reddit for hosting the creator. Reddit gets money, creator gets a png. It’s a really bad deal, and I’m not sure what kind of lunatic buys Reddit awards.
fragmede 5y ago
Reddit's gone to lengths to hide it, so casual users aren't hitting it by accident two clicks off an unrelated Google search result page, not on "/r/all", which gets advertisers what they want, without the uproar that banning porn would cause.
falcolas 5y ago
> Reddit seems to have resisted whatever calls it must be getting to eliminate porn Not entirely. They purged all NSFW subreddits from the r/all and r/popular meta subreddits. They also go on a purging binge whenever a remotely taboo subreddit makes the news.
- ribosometronome 5y ago
  What "remotely taboo" subreddits were banned after making the news? The ones I recall weren't "remotely", they were "extremely". As in, sexual images of children, pictures taken of women without their knowledge, legitimate hate subreddits, ones dedicated to spreading misinformation re: COVID, etc.
  - pvarangot 5y ago
    r/The_Donald was "quarantined", which is not banning but kinda. The excuse I think was that they did "organized brigading" or something like that.
    - ribosometronome 5y ago
      They were eventually banned after the quarantine. But they also spent years promoting racism, hate, dangerous conspiracy theories, a neo-nazi rally that resulted in murder, etc. It's hard to look at all of that and think it was just "kind of taboo".
      - wincy 5y ago
        I went to the Donald all the time to get a different perspective and if there was racism and hate any worse than /r/politicalhumor or /r/politics I never saw it.
        SV_BubbleTime 5y ago
        I started doing the same after the Pulse Nightclub shooting when literally the rest of Reddit was censoring and preventing discussion because it was almost immediately known the shooter was Muslim. It was the only place you could go for a live thread and actual info. Over time, the signal to noise was low. But occasionally there was a good point or funny meme. I can't say for sure I saw any racism worse than anywhere else. I really don't like when people use whatever this is ((( ))) to talk about Jews, saw that a couple times on t_d, but I've definitely also seen it on /r/politics /r/atheism etc
        5y ago

by vwoolf 5y ago

alpaca128 5y ago

Reddit doesn't let people pay directly for content. You can gift awards but those aren't really worth anything.

SlowRobotAhead 5y ago
> Reddit doesn't let people pay directly for content. You can gift awards but those aren't really worth anything. Worth noting this scenario is even less similar than as you wrote it. Not only can’t you pay content creators on Reddit, but the awards, are you paying Reddit for hosting the creator. Reddit gets money, creator gets a png. It’s a really bad deal, and I’m not sure what kind of lunatic buys Reddit awards.

fragmede 5y ago

Reddit's gone to lengths to hide it, so casual users aren't hitting it by accident two clicks off an unrelated Google search result page, not on "/r/all", which gets advertisers what they want, without the uproar that banning porn would cause.

falcolas 5y ago

> Reddit seems to have resisted whatever calls it must be getting to eliminate porn Not entirely. They purged all NSFW subreddits from the r/all and r/popular meta subreddits. They also go on a purging binge whenever a remotely taboo subreddit makes the news.

ribosometronome 5y ago
What "remotely taboo" subreddits were banned after making the news? The ones I recall weren't "remotely", they were "extremely". As in, sexual images of children, pictures taken of women without their knowledge, legitimate hate subreddits, ones dedicated to spreading misinformation re: COVID, etc.
- pvarangot 5y ago
  r/The_Donald was "quarantined", which is not banning but kinda. The excuse I think was that they did "organized brigading" or something like that.
  - ribosometronome 5y ago
    They were eventually banned after the quarantine. But they also spent years promoting racism, hate, dangerous conspiracy theories, a neo-nazi rally that resulted in murder, etc. It's hard to look at all of that and think it was just "kind of taboo".
    - wincy 5y ago
      I went to the Donald all the time to get a different perspective and if there was racism and hate any worse than /r/politicalhumor or /r/politics I never saw it.
      - SV_BubbleTime 5y ago
        I started doing the same after the Pulse Nightclub shooting when literally the rest of Reddit was censoring and preventing discussion because it was almost immediately known the shooter was Muslim. It was the only place you could go for a live thread and actual info. Over time, the signal to noise was low. But occasionally there was a good point or funny meme. I can't say for sure I saw any racism worse than anywhere else. I really don't like when people use whatever this is ((( ))) to talk about Jews, saw that a couple times on t_d, but I've definitely also seen it on /r/politics /r/atheism etc
      - 5y ago