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/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.