Something big is happening, as Reddit seems to have purged literally every NSFW sub they know. Reason is always “unmoderated” despite some of the banned subreddits being fully moderated.

Edit: seems to have been a bug in automation (thanks @lefty7283@lemmy.world):

https://old.reddit.com/r/ModSupport/comments/1ii67mt/_/mb3fewv

It’s still a good reminder on how quickly a community (or communities) thousands of people enjoy and in some cases rely upon can disappear.

  • hector@sh.itjust.works
    321·
    16 hours ago

    r/drugs has been banned?? That was one of my favorite place on Reddit back in the days :(I haven’t found a community for that here :(

    (Edit: Drug Reddit was amaziiing, especially r/shrooms r/trees r/dxm | can’t really start a community because I’m not regular enough in this area, I guess that’s a good thing)

    • delgato@sh.itjust.works
      16·
      16 hours ago

      Same, when I was a teenager it was Erowid for all my questions, then r/drugs in college. I also loved r/tooktoomuch, which had the best life lessons to offer.

      • codenul@lemmy.ml
        2·
        12 hours ago

        havent heard of ‘Erowid’ in a minute. Great memories back then, simpler times

      • hector@sh.itjust.works
        6·
        16 hours ago

        I learned all the thing that kept me safe on there too; and the life story were interesting and also the trip reports and experiment!

        This was something I couldn’t get IRL until a long time, and still, is not very active today (my friends and I are all busy we can’t really experiment !! Maybe next time we see each other)

        • Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works
          3·
          9 hours ago

          Erowid is still good, though I wish there was a little more info about current operations and projects outside of maintaining the experience report database. As far as I can tell, both Erowid Monthly and Erowid Extracts are dead, Ask Erowid is dead, DrugsData is not currently receiving samples, etc.

          There’s reason to play some stuff close to the chest, obviously, but there used to be more activity than just the experience database, and it’s sad to see the other functions languish. But as a repository of drug information it’s still pretty great.

          A newer good harm reduction/info site is tripsit.me, which also has a trip sit via chat service. Can’t speak to the quality of the chat service, over something like the Fireside Project which has been around for a while now, but the infosheets on tripsit are pretty good.

          Edit: Ugh, going through the other Erowid sections again…beginning to think I need to step up and see if they want more volunteers. Lots of dead links where Wayback can probably help a ton, the Character vault can probably be expanded quite a bit, etc. But this all might just be the focus moving on a bit. I just wanted to see Ralph Metzner’s blog, since you hear so much about Tim Leary and Ram Dass but Metzner was right there with 'em.

  • Eddbopkins@lemmy.world
    1·
    14 minutes ago

    Reddit is run by big business and greedy corporate America. When it went public for the stock price to make even more money then it did before, I left that place.

  • misterhuh@lemmy.ml
    6·
    21 hours ago

    They have been coming back. /drugs being one that is back. Don’t know wtf happened, but glad I’m here.

  • Rose56@lemmy.ca
    91·
    20 hours ago

    Imagine all these OF models with their bots posting all over NSFW communities, it will be dead! How they will promote? Lol

    If all this people go over Lemmynsfw, it won’t handle all of this, that’s why more NSFW instances should be maid IMO.

  • Hillmarsh@lemm.ee
    11·
    16 hours ago

    Terrible choice caving into the pseudo-moralists, but they’ve been going down a bad path for a long time. They should’ve looked at the cautionary tale of Tumblr before committing this own goal. Making sweeping changes to fit in with corporate agendas may be popular among their own class, but it also has the longer-term effect of sacrificing the user base. And they’ve been hemorrhaging for a while anyway. Where do they think their future profits will come from?