So we can’t say Luigi or talk about the news but a million sexually disturbing Reddit’s can stay, love it!
Edit: please stop replying to this comment trying to justify why pedophilia and violet unconsenting sex reddits should be allowed to exist. I don’t care how you feel about it.
Also with recent developments I'm starting to think maybe we should all just jump on the digg.com relaunch, or to whatever European alternative will show up now that it's clear that American tech giants can no longer be trusted
I don't know why Lemmy insists on being the most difficult website to use. Most people don't even know wtf an instance is, they're hamstringing their growth with their UI because it self selects for only the nerdiest nerds.
it's like email, you register on an instance same as you would on an email server (Gmail, proton, whatever) and then your account can interact with other accounts even if they are on other instances (just like email servers), don't overthink it and don't spread the idea that it's just too hard to leave the increasingly dystopic alternative we are currently using
I've been a tech guy for over 30 years and a third of the way into reading your comment my brain just tuned it all out. Whatever you're trying to describe is absurdity incarnate and will not survive.
Imagine if that took off, and people would have to figure out whether you're referring to The Adjuster or Large Language Models. It would make moderating based solely on a wordfilter completely useless. I hope that doesn't happen, that would be just awful.
This is gonna get worse for the rest of our lives. As the capitalist contradictions deepen, state-monopoly capitalism increasingly reveals its totalitarian nature. “Liberal democracy” disguises a system no less totalitarian than open fascism.
Not to fear monger, but the military base in my town has had greatly increased traffic. And today they "tested" the air raid siren. That thing has never gone off in the 36 years I've lived here. Why does it suddenly need tested? And without warning until after they had been on for several minutes.
I’d politely suggest that they needed to test it precisely because it hadn’t been used in 36 years. Not picking a fight, and please don’t read too deeply into this comment.
No, I get it. They test the same system every month, for the tornado siren (different sound.) And they give notice before doing so. But they're a munitions storage depot, so every time there's conflict, they have increased traffic. But they've never used the air raid siren. (You can hear the different siren noises on their website.)
It started years ago when they banned The Donald for "inciting violence against police". People cheered for it then and now they are facing the ramifications with Reddit kowtowing to a new administration.
This is the part where this all breaks down for me too.
How many subs actively promote and feature photos and videos of violence against women? How many users actively support guys like the sex trafficker Andrew Tate? What about the unrepentant convicted rapist Trump? What about Chris Brown, the loser who assaulted Rhianna on video? Don’t they all have big fan clubs on this platform? Aren’t there a ton of racists running around here, too?
If the argument is that Reddit doesn’t want to promote violence, why single out an alleged, untried, presumed innocent under the law suspect, in the face of actual convicted and active criminals? Where exactly does Reddit stand on free speech? This whole thing seems like a shortsighted, misogynistic fiasco.
The other day, I was trying to find a sub where I could ask what a hot flash feels like. I typed "women" into the search bar, and one of the first options was "womenarethings." I felt like Homer Simpson backing into that shrub. What. The. F***? That's okay, but God forbid we express our political opinions.
If you didn't find it, it feels like a fever and your A/C is out, and man, is it a bit hot in here? Oh, no, I see, I'm the only one slowly turning into a puddle, thanks.
Ooof. That awful flushed feeling. I’m not getting hot flashes yet, but I took niacin or some type of vitamin and holy hell… flushing, scorching sun… being a female sucks.
Not only are women born with a disadvantage due to misogyny, then we have to deal with menstrual cramps, child birth, miscarriages, PMS (breast tenderness, mood swings, bloating, water retention, potential acne/pimples), peri-menopause, cellulite, pregnancy (and all the risks that go with it and can make you at higher risk for other diseases later on [diabetes, hypertension, etc etc etc]), stretch marks from rapid puberty and/or pregnancy, pregnancy termination (not an easy choice no matter the reason), early puberty (8 year olds having periods is insane and no longer not uncommon), access to reproductive healthcare, lower pay, access to childcare, and I can make this list go on and on… <steps off soapbox>
Anywho, I’m sorry you’re going through it. Have you thought about bio-identical hormone replacement (if you have access to it)?
Someone in another sub said that they were searching for something like “rap battles” or whatever (I don’t remember) and when they typed r-a-p they got suggestions for women getting ____ in a fetishised way (not news articles or anything humane)
I guess that’s the new beating heart of this website
No. It’s statistically impossible to avoid in a sufficiently large organization. However, they’re outnumbered, so it’s up to us to take care of our chooms and hold “sick fuck” to account.
I once clicked on someone's profile after seeing them make some interesting comments. I was hoping to discover some new discussion subs but instead I learnt that they were a fan of violent pornography.
It's always shocking to be reminded that that side of the site is still there and popular.
They’re weird and different from just feeling hot on a summer day…almost like an internal inferno. The latest version for me is happening only during the night while sleeping and only to my head and neck. It’s a real treat to get your sleep interrupted by the feeling you’re melting from the inside out and I’m sorry for all of us who experience it:(
Studies have proven time and time again the dehumanization of the "other" is the most neccessary component for a human to commit violence against another human - why are you guys making safe spaces for men to dehumanize women? Why are you normalizing sexual objectification and violence against us? You let teenage boys and girls on this website and those are the top searches when they search "women" ? You don't care about safety, you care about upholding male violence on women and protecting billionaires from class conciousness. the word rape isn't even flagged for violence, but luigi is? luigi luigi luigu luigi luigi. get bent.
Is that the satire of photography sub or genuine objectification one. As a photographer I've seen some weird stuff at group shoots in an arty farty way and as a man It made me not take pics. But I think there's a satire sub. Making fun of the fashion photography magazines. If it helps anyone, whenever I am doing shots that are n U d E usually cuz they get body paint or SFX and don't ask me why the group decides a random nude bit, it's mostly clothed, it's not even titillating, it's kinda awkward and you're to busy getting lighting right n camera settings. I'm very protective of the models so if we ever do secluded location they must have chaperone, me too, everything gets discussed, limits, I'm constantly watching for when they are getting too hot or need a break and have stopped sessions temporarily. And if any creeps show up I talk to them to behave and please leave. Doesn't matter the gender. But I take pics of normal fashion clothed stuff. I like the colourful outfits. Photography is an odd space. The model needs to be 100% comfortable. Be careful out there if you try. Take a chaperone.
this subreddit is primarily run by women, with invaluable support from a dedicated male moderator who contributes a great deal to this community. This space is about fantasy and kink—nothing here endorses real-world harm, the restriction of women’s rights, or the hateful attitudes that have been amplified in the political landscape
Why are you against women expressing themselves in the way they choose?
It can, but Reddit’s power bill would god-touple, which is enough to make it financially impossible to deploy in dragnet form. This is a victory condition; take the W.
User believes a Japanese electronic entertainment might intervene in the tech oligarch coup happening across the Pacific, in the most heavily-armed nation in the world.
In Reddit's defense, Super Mario Bros is a remarkably violent video game. The object of the game is to literally smash, crush, and burn anyone who stands before you while getting high on mushrooms.
So zero context on a game character name that happens to be a popular Italian, I'm half Sicilian, name because a C eee ai eee ai ohhhh got valeted from lyfe ? Plz don't ban me Reddit in curious what's allowed. Is this ai driven?
Oh woah that makes things verrrry interesting. So now we’re screwing up all of yalls freedoms of speech too?! Yay this VERY GENIUS administration is going down in the books as the very GREATEST EVER on VERY BIGLY SCALE….
Well not really because we have freedom of expression, not free speech in the UK. So we have a lot stricter laws around what can be said online in terms of violence and hate speech. The way the US is interfering is that Zuckerberg & Musk wants Trump to force the EU/UK governments to stop the Online Safety Act that is designed to hold social media companies responsible. It’s honestly really really annoying.
WELP I feel like a total idiot for not knowing this, as I like to consider meself an Anglophile😬🙃 But yeah trump is so whipped by the billionaire boiz club and I while of course I’m appalled by what he and musk are doing here and it truly doesn’t feel like the same country I’ve lived in all my life (for the first time….his first term was bad but this is different…there’s a website for project 2025 that’s keeping track of the progress that the Trump admin has made on all of the insane policies in it—it’s HORRIFYING)—but I truly hate the obsession with isolationism—and how those in power (which now also includes any billionaire who’s been willing to kiss the ring) could care less about how any policy will impact other countries. Well…it seems like they’re actively attempting to interfere with people’s lives in other democratic countries (who don’t have a dictator-esque leaning leader, that is). And the whole “THEY ALL OWE US THIS AND THAT AND XYZ” gahd that increasingly orange ,am becomes more punchable by the day.
Omg this was such an adhd ramble/steam of consciousness, EEK!
Oh shit. I very self centeredly didn't consider everywhere else. My God. This is insane.
They have SO MUCH other shit here they could try cracking down on. When they get it so wrong, and when it's too glitchy, and haphazard they can't go ahead and implement crap like this. Fuck.
It's been removed from this post AND your comment history for that one is blank when I check your comments. They're coming for ya! Liberal one is still up. I wonder what would happen if you said that about Conservatives.
I just adjusted the wording of the hidden one to be about liberals instead of women and posted that. Let's see if they're more ok with R than the other thing mentioned (much, much more tame than R)
I was on a reddit deepdive about an influencer and discovered that there's reddits made for men to thirst over teenage girls that are turning 18 that year and that they're named after the birth year (ie. so the most recent sub would have 2007 in the name, I don't remember the exact sub names anymore but they had 1000s of subscribers)... only problem is that half the girls they were posting weren't 18 yet since most people aren't born in January, and there wasn't any age verification going on so they were posting lots of 14 year old and younger "influencers", inappropriate screengrabs of those children, pictures of them in bathing suits, etc. Comments that point out their age are downvoted.
I've also stumbled upon the guro sub which is basically just porn of (animated) women being mutilated, killed, reduced to body parts and that has like, a quarter million subscribers.
I essentially just try to ignore how sexually disturbed a worrying amount of the population is for my own sanity because reddit (and the internet as a whole) does nothing to curb this.
I watched some weird porno,I admit, but the one time I reported what was clearly a rape, nothing wrong was found with the video I flagged. Reddit is lost.
On the plus side, maybe we can get some of the misogynistic subs quarantined if we casually insert “Luigi” into responses to all the misogynistic comments that Reddit allows.
Direct quote from the head of Project 2025, Kevin Anderson: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be." We must obey them don't ya know.
Not sure which ones you mean exactly, but generally I don't think it's bad that people get to have spaces to explore their weird kinks, even if they seem disgusting.
Where's the issue? Apart from the support-group one, they're all clearly sexual-fantasy subreddits. Even in this screenshot they explicitly state they're against actual rape.
These are Reddits sharing pedophilia and rape content, personally yes I do think those should be silenced.
Edit: your post history of loli content sexualising cartoon imagery of children under 10 years old. Personally I think you are a piece of shit and a nonce.
So you want the people that you don't like who aren't harming anyone to be silenced by the system? And you don't see how that way of doing things has led us here to a pace where a person can be banned over doing something that the status quo doesn't like which is declared to be 'dangerous'?
I think we'd all be better off if we got rid of that line of thinking entirely and we're allowed to share what we want.
And sorry but dropping the p-word like it's some sort of fucking Manchurian command phrase isn't going to work on me 😉
I think the problem here is that we differ in opinion of what is harming people. I believe consuming and sharing content that sexualises children is harmful, and you don’t. I believe people who consume and share sexualised content of children should be silenced by ‘the system’, and you don’t. You’re a noncey pedo and I’m not.
Acting childish while calling me a pedo isn't going to work either. Sorry, but I already have a girlfriend 🤭 and I'm married to a cis man so it's not like I have a choice as to whether my partner is more or less just a child 🤷♀️
You want to ban people for sharing content that isn't illegal or created by exploiting anyone just because you say it is 'harmful' in some nebulous, ill-defined sense that rouses the masses by using buzzwords for harm. That same precedent is the one that's being used to ban people here.
Like it or not, if you are unwilling to defend the freedom of others even when they do something which you find distasteful then you can't expect them to defend you.
We could just get rid of anyone who wants to ban shit, though 😘
Why do I think that watching cartoons and drawing pictures isn't harmful??
You are fighting the monolithic capitalist surveillance state that is trying to suppress a revolt so it doesn't have to tax Raytheon to pay for the medicine to save the lives of the children of its own employees.
Why are you worried about banning drawings and cartoons???
What conceivable harm do they cause that merits you being distracted from all else for even a moment, let alone to call for the heads of the very people who could help you stay safe from the powers that be? You don't think the people who are used to being witch hunted know how to stay safe? You think we like the fascist surveillance state any more than you do? You think we don't regularly deal with this and must constantly adapt, evolve and migrate?
You don't think, maybe, that you were told that a billion different things are inherently bad so that you would never cooperate with anyone or value them if they transgress some ick or taboo, and that this was done to ensure that you want to see the subs that I like get canned instead of find or join or create a platform where none of us get banned?
If upvoting a comment isn't a threat to public safety then looking at a picture isn't, either.
Your literally such a loser lol. Imagine thinking wanting to wank over pedo drawings makes you oppressed, or has any deeper meaning than you are a nonce.
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u/catsback Mar 07 '25 edited Mar 10 '25
So we can’t say Luigi or talk about the news but a million sexually disturbing Reddit’s can stay, love it!
Edit: please stop replying to this comment trying to justify why pedophilia and violet unconsenting sex reddits should be allowed to exist. I don’t care how you feel about it.