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Reddit purges all NSFW subreddits (pawb.social)
submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by amju_wolf@pawb.social to c/reddit@lemmy.ml
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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.

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[–] Jomn@jlai.lu 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

If they are really testing things like that, it's quite worrying that they did it on the production server...

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 6 points 8 months ago

Huffman was probably in a huge hurry to gargle Elon's balls.

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 months ago

Thats just regular boring old Incompetence.