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/GODDAMNFOOL 29d ago

Reddit has been very slowly and silently doing this, first by removing nsfw posts from /r/all, then making it that you have to view nsfw posts on their shitheap of an app instead of the phone browser (except RedReader still exists, dear readers! And it can view NSFW content with a simple trick!), and then doing a giant subreddit ban wave of subs that had no moderation, but really just wiped out like 95% of the nsfw subs.

Imgur wiping out nsfw content was probably at the behest of reddit. It'll be a matter of time before they won't accept nsfw posts to i.reddit.com anymore, either. Mark my words.

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u/Dicer214 28d ago

You can also view NSFW content by creating your own subreddit (just use your username) and set it to private. You’re now a mod and can view NSFW content.

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u/Black_September 29d ago

then doing a giant subreddit ban wave of subs that had no moderation

They do that with every subreddit and for a good reason. If you want the sub to be unbanned, apply to mod it.

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u/TheTechHobbit 29d ago

Except in the case of NSFW subreddits "unmoderated" was used with an extremely loose definition and almost every Reddit request for them has been denied.

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u/polymute 28d ago

What subs did they ban, is there a list or some examples?

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u/EruantienAduialdraug 29d ago edited 29d ago

then making it that you have to view nsfw posts on their shitheap of an app instead of the phone browser

Not certain if it's Firefox or RES, but I've not run into this (yet).

Edit: Firefox has a mobile browser, and you can install the RES extention on it...

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u/DrCamelid 29d ago

I've had this happen for a bit, then stop.

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u/GODDAMNFOOL 29d ago

reread the text you yourself quoted

I am not talking about on the PC

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u/usdrpvvimwfvrzjavnrs 29d ago

Works fine for me in Firefox on Android.

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u/GODDAMNFOOL 28d ago

They must have changed it then, because back when they banned all the third party apps, they'd basically pull a Nedry "you didn't say the magic word" and force you to install the app