Yes, you are correct, it was technically not illegal. The best kind of correct amiright?

Banned before they started is hyperbole.

I mean they should have been shut down at the first report of the illegal/pedo activity on the sub, they should have lasted weeks to months at the longest.

They should have never been around long enough for someone like, me, a vanilla layperson who does not go to reddit for porn, to hear about - which is they were around for years before I heard of them and for more years after.

On Fedi I also think communities like this should be banned, and typically they are, the admins of the largest instances are very protective of what they are hosting and linking to and I appreciate that. NSFW is also much more compartmentalized on Lemmy, so I very rarely if at all run in to anything more than people being politically questionable but not physically.

Is this not the thread where we are talking about reddit being shitty? Is there some reason you feel like you need to defend reddit so hard for slave trading?

Yes, I am 100% morally grandstanding here. Jailbait, BeatingWomen, RapingWomen, Creepshots and YES SLADETRADE should have been banned before they even got started. Doubling down I also think BlackCrime, AsianFemaleHate, DailyStormerCom, JewExtinctionFetish, PicsofDeadkids, SexwithDogs, GOREgousWomen, ProED, and many many other subreddits should not have even been around long enough to even make the list of banned subreddits.

I am sure it was the content from consenting adults that got the sub banned https://www.reddit.com/r/slavetrade/.

Listen - I am not saying you can’t have fetishes and consenting adults cannot enjoy fetishes together, I am saying reddit is a cesspool of people trying to play off horrific abuse as fetishes and this is very well documented.

Totally - “jailbait”, beatingwomen, rapingwomen and creepshots were also fetish subs. The more you know 💫

I didn’t know about this sub but now am horrified and unsurprised.

ok, I’ll stand corrected on the one count that the only convicted pedophile of the Epstein class was moderating on one of the largest socially acceptable pedophilia sites on the internet. But some might be able to guess how i lean on that unfounded claim.

The actual writing of correct syntax was never the bottleneck in development projects, but management is not ready to hear that they are the problem.

Reddit was always shitty from when

• The only reason the jailbait sub came down was do to main stream media pressure - if you missed jailbait was a “SFW” sub for posting reveling photos of other people’s children to be gooned over. It was voted “Subreddit of the year” in 2008

• the mod who ran jailbait was an ICON on reddit for years and he also modded dozens of other equally questionable subs

• The insane redditor backlash to them banning FatPeopleHate sub - which for those who missed it was a sub dedicated to posting photos of overweight people without their knowledge so the internet could mock them. This was mostly made up of - yes you guessed it - mostly photos of fat women getting mocked.

• Leaving up the BeatingWomen sub that is specifically for posting videos of women getting beat up for 10+ more years after jailbait came down.

• leaving up the Creepshots sub, a sub dedicated to upskirt and down-shirt photos of unsuspecting women, for YEARS and only taking it down due to to it hitting the main stream news and forcing their hand. This sub was also modded by the Jailbait mod.

• the RAMPANT sexism and racism as thinly veiled intellectualism that has gone on for DECADES

• Ghislaine Maxwell was a moderator on worldnews - I cannot back this claim up so I am removing it.

The API thing and forced logins is probably one of the least shitty things this site has done.

10 years, 6 months, if anyone was wondering what the “more than” meant

Here is my take - They are adding a new metric called “Engaged Views”, this is the same metric that a “View” was previously, something like - the person stayed after 30 seconds so they are “engaged”. Then they are going to sell ads based on the now inflated view number and use the “Engaged view” metric against creators so they can cut the amount they are paying for monetization.

Potatoes are also vegetables.

I hate that I did this exact thing last year.

I can still see it while not logged in but I assume it is only a matter of time. https://old.lemmy.world/ ftw

That is because in China, the federal government takes care of paying local social services, like schools, emergency services, parks, and libraries. In the US, these costs are funded, in part or in full by properties taxes.

I have accounts on several instances, so I just block all the same things for each.

I did a couple things to make my life comfy here.

I changed my default sort to be “new comments” - this gave me the biggest perspective change on Lemmy, I now see where the active conversations are and it makes the place feel more full of people and less pages and pages of empty threads. I also found a lot less political stuff this way, because it gets posted a lot but people only interact with just a few of the political posts, so only those one end up floating to the top. I am finding myself getting less politics this way on Lemmy than I was on reddit. Also has the added bonus of highlighting where the active communities are.

I blocked Lemmy.ml and hexbear. A lot of the wilder leftist stuff comes from them and once it was blocked I saw the amount of politics in my feed drop right away.

This 100%. Everything you write on any of these chats, anything you write in email, anything you exchange digitally can be monitored if it is not end to end encrypted. People are way too ignorant about it. Just because you can’t search your chat history up on Google doesn’t mean you aren’t being tracked, recorded and monitored.

I am 1000% sure if this was a Muslim preaching they would find a way to stop it.

was using Sync, just installed Voyager today, still have to see which I like better.