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Reddit communities with millions of followers plan to extend the blackout indefinitely
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this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2023
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The thing that worries me is if they do manage to get through this without losing anything significant, it’s only going to give them confidence to go further. How long before old.reddit goes? NSFW content? Blocking users with adblockers?
Nsfw got killed by that as well basically, moderating nsfw subs is one hell of a work, and they can't use third party tools at all anymore because the api just doesn't forward nsfw stuff anymore, all their bots will 100% go out and that will be the day reddit gets flooded with Child porn and billions of onlyfans links. You just cant moderate a sub without tools, and reddit itself offers absolutely nothing.
Is Lemmy resistant to any of this, or is its future child porn etc.?
Not sure about the entirety of available options but one thing I think instances are able to do is block other instances... so I guess if an instance became flooded with illegal material, another instance could block it - though I'm not yet sure what that means exactly in this context.