reddit bypasses this block automatic if you are moderator. even if it’s just your own sub you just created. being a mod disables this block on all subs
I think so, I finally had to uninstall Boost today after it wouldn’t load posts anymore. I was surprised it was working this long past July 1st even though they said it wasn’t.
It is ultimately a way to further cripple 3rd part apps. Thus, making the official Reddit app look better by comparison.
It’s not certain if Reddit will get rid of porn, because while porn sub-reddits don’t generate ad revenue, a not insignificant portion of Reddit’s user-base visit porn sub-reddits, making Reddit a good one-stop-shop for a user’s media related need. So while porn doesn’t generate ad revenue, it brings users, users who also visit other non-porn sub-reddits that do.
Also be sure to put a bunch of stupid shit in your sub to make the site more lame. Post about how it’s lame and people should use Lemmy or Kbin instead.
Lmao this puritanical turn from all these tech companies over the last 5-6 years I don’t get it. All they are going to do is speed self-immolation. What is happening to the internet.
All companies that go to IPO purge their porn content beforehand unless they are dedicated pornography businesses, and even those have a massive shakeup of what content is and is not allowed (pornhub and onlyfans being examples). It’s not because they’re “puritanical”. When a company IPOs it opens itself up to share purchases but what most people miss is that it also opens itself up to shortselling, this is essentially a shares “downvote” where the person shorting a company can make money if the company’s value goes down.
Negative press causes a company’s value to go down. And the people that own the press are the financial industry, they use and weaponise their media contacts and friends to achieve financial outcomes very successfully.
So when a company IPOs one of the things it does is seek to remove all possible things on a service that can be weaponised as negative press against the company in order for people to profit off of shortselling the drop in value this causes in the market.
The situation is that Reddit and Imgur have a sizeable amount of likely illegal pornographic content on their servers.
Their options are:
To ban all the porn. Which it looks like they are trying to do. On paper this is the best option for investors, as it protects the investment. However in the real world this can piss off the userbase and tank the website by losing a sizeable amount of users (see Tumblr).
To continue without any changes. This is also guarantees the investment tanking, all it takes is one Anderson Cooper style jailbait investigation into Reddit to destroy the investment. I guarantee that there is a significant amount of underage content uploaded to it, certainly enough to stir up a shitstorm in the media.
To implement proper age verification for pornographic content, like pornhub and onlyfans did. But in the investment world it is unpopular to be seen as a person that invests in pornography, the investors don’t want it to be public knowledge that they are investing in a porn website in some way and Reddit implementing proper verification processes will make it clear that Reddit is a pornography business. Thus also devaluing the investment.
it’s such a stupid thing. like reddit is not earning anything anyway if I am going there only for porn. like advertisers are not going to put ads in NSFW subs anyway. what’s the point of this change
Reduce the number of API requests from whatever 3rd party apps are left; this reduces server load and costs.
Coerce users into trying the 1st party app and tolerating it so they can watch NSFW content. This may cause some users to abandon the 3rd party app and just settle for the 1st party app.
There was this great community on r/medicalgore where people shared pics of symptoms of their health problems or photos made during their operations. This allowed everyone to fear less about own health problems. The whole sub was always NSFW.
Why would you look for porn on Reddit of all places? There’s lots of porn and the internet is a big place. Reddit is a sorry place to post and view it in the first place.
Bullshit. Reddit is one of the easiest places to find porn for whatever kink/fetish you have. Combine that with the abundance of people that post their nudes there (even before the rise of OF), and you have one of the biggest databases of porn with easy save options, all tied to your anonymous account. If anything, porn is about the only reason I miss Reddit.
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Hmm seems I can still access from ravanced Sync
reddit bypasses this block automatic if you are moderator. even if it’s just your own sub you just created. being a mod disables this block on all subs
I can access NSFW content with Revanced Sync as well, and I’m not a mod.
Yeah… It seems like they only blocked the API keys belonging to the well known app developers from accessing NSFW as it stands at the moment.
I still can. Using Boost unpatched. Am I lucky?
Boost just went down for me. Goodnight sweet prince
Just logged in to check. Headed to fridge to pour one out for my dead homie.
RIP Boost. Until we meet again in Lemmy.
I think so, I finally had to uninstall Boost today after it wouldn’t load posts anymore. I was surprised it was working this long past July 1st even though they said it wasn’t.
My boost loaded a lemme plug and stopped working, but now is working again. Idk when it will die, just trying to get ahead of it.
Never come between a horny internet user and pr0n 🍆
Which is kind of funny because one of the reasons Reddit got so big was because of the pornography
It is ultimately a way to further cripple 3rd part apps. Thus, making the official Reddit app look better by comparison. It’s not certain if Reddit will get rid of porn, because while porn sub-reddits don’t generate ad revenue, a not insignificant portion of Reddit’s user-base visit porn sub-reddits, making Reddit a good one-stop-shop for a user’s media related need. So while porn doesn’t generate ad revenue, it brings users, users who also visit other non-porn sub-reddits that do.
You still can if you’re a subreddit mod, so I just did this:
Ah so this is why my apps sorta kinda work but are buggy as shit.
Also be sure to put a bunch of stupid shit in your sub to make the site more lame. Post about how it’s lame and people should use Lemmy or Kbin instead.
Which app are you using? On boost it tries to load (even non NSFW) but it does not load the posts.
Edit: NVM, Took a while but SFW and NSFW posts indeed are still loading on boost, for various accounts of mine.
The way the block works is that NSFW content works as it used to, but subs tagged by admins as porn will not.
Oh damn, is that why infinity for reddit still works for me?
u/redditmaturecontent forcing me to browse pornhub
That was like, half the reason I used reddit, lol. Otherwise it’s just a shithole full of “aHkshUaly” people.
Take your clothes off, or give me something actually interesting and insightful to read, or fuck right off.
Brains or butthole, otherwise keep walking.
Lmao this puritanical turn from all these tech companies over the last 5-6 years I don’t get it. All they are going to do is speed self-immolation. What is happening to the internet.
All companies that go to IPO purge their porn content beforehand unless they are dedicated pornography businesses, and even those have a massive shakeup of what content is and is not allowed (pornhub and onlyfans being examples). It’s not because they’re “puritanical”. When a company IPOs it opens itself up to share purchases but what most people miss is that it also opens itself up to shortselling, this is essentially a shares “downvote” where the person shorting a company can make money if the company’s value goes down.
Negative press causes a company’s value to go down. And the people that own the press are the financial industry, they use and weaponise their media contacts and friends to achieve financial outcomes very successfully.
So when a company IPOs one of the things it does is seek to remove all possible things on a service that can be weaponised as negative press against the company in order for people to profit off of shortselling the drop in value this causes in the market.
The situation is that Reddit and Imgur have a sizeable amount of likely illegal pornographic content on their servers.
Their options are:
To ban all the porn. Which it looks like they are trying to do. On paper this is the best option for investors, as it protects the investment. However in the real world this can piss off the userbase and tank the website by losing a sizeable amount of users (see Tumblr).
To continue without any changes. This is also guarantees the investment tanking, all it takes is one Anderson Cooper style jailbait investigation into Reddit to destroy the investment. I guarantee that there is a significant amount of underage content uploaded to it, certainly enough to stir up a shitstorm in the media.
To implement proper age verification for pornographic content, like pornhub and onlyfans did. But in the investment world it is unpopular to be seen as a person that invests in pornography, the investors don’t want it to be public knowledge that they are investing in a porn website in some way and Reddit implementing proper verification processes will make it clear that Reddit is a pornography business. Thus also devaluing the investment.
The VC money dried up
They are losing access to nearly limitless free money
it’s such a stupid thing. like reddit is not earning anything anyway if I am going there only for porn. like advertisers are not going to put ads in NSFW subs anyway. what’s the point of this change
The point of this is to:
I doubt it has much to do with advertising.
A friend told me that other apps like Telegram still have a ton of porn on them allegedly.
Don’t care about this.
There was this great community on r/medicalgore where people shared pics of symptoms of their health problems or photos made during their operations. This allowed everyone to fear less about own health problems. The whole sub was always NSFW.
Why would you look for porn on Reddit of all places? There’s lots of porn and the internet is a big place. Reddit is a sorry place to post and view it in the first place.
Bullshit. Reddit is one of the easiest places to find porn for whatever kink/fetish you have. Combine that with the abundance of people that post their nudes there (even before the rise of OF), and you have one of the biggest databases of porn with easy save options, all tied to your anonymous account. If anything, porn is about the only reason I miss Reddit.
Is this really a problem? It’s not like the internet is begging for more porn.
A problem for the internet? No
A problem for people who enjoy NSFW content and prefer to find it on Reddit? Yeah.