I fully expect NSFW to be removed from reddit before their IPO. It’s the way society is now that you can in theory have a bigger reach and userbase if you allow countries that have restrictive NSFW laws in by banning NSFW from your site.
That’s a possibility. I don’t disagree with your take, but I feel it’s not greedy enough.
I don’t use mobile, but I believe blanket NSFW subs are still accessible from the official app while getting canned on anything third party that still remains (accessibility apps?) and mobile web pages. The insistent funneling to their app makes me think they’re taking steps to monetize viewing NSFW rather than remove it; probably as something like a show of force to investor on how they’ve “successfully” monetized both the advertizer friendly and unfriendly segments of their platform.
Matching up more with what you said, I also think they’ll at some point make a blanket SFW designation for subs like the current blanket NSFW one, and then bully subs into opting into it (or splitting into one of each). I expect having a stronger SFW/NSFW split will make selling SFW reddit even easier to advertizers, and if they’re able to make the two legally distinct enough, to those restrictive countries you mentioned. This all feels like too much to foist on the community before the IPO, so I expect it’ll be billed as a potential avenue for Reddit’s “growth”. After the IPO, I do expect something along these lines to happen as things start to spiral the drain faster.
It’s true I could have probably ridden it out until the very end, but this entire situation stunk of a long game of
Oh no criticism here. I think it was a very pragmatic time for any loli-tangential community to jump ship and ride the “current event” wave to (hopefully) better conversion numbers. I just have serious doubts of the staying power of any community that isn’t intrinsically obligated to move off Reddit, at least currently. So I’m sticking with Reddit over the, uh, Burggit-less section of Lemmy, if for nothing else the morbid curiosity of watching things deteriorate in the subs I read.
I don’t have much time before the main /r/touhou community tries to replace us with /r/touhoe or something else that’s stupid (as a side note, they’ve always mismanaged their NSFW side, to the point of giving me a niche to live in).
Interesting! I never really paid much attention to the Touhou subs, but now that you mention it - having someone loli friendly or even just loli neutral still in a moderation position for a NSFW sub is not something I’d expect this many years into the loli purge. I salute you.
That’s a possibility. I don’t disagree with your take, but I feel it’s not greedy enough.
I don’t use mobile, but I believe blanket NSFW subs are still accessible from the official app while getting canned on anything third party that still remains (accessibility apps?) and mobile web pages. The insistent funneling to their app makes me think they’re taking steps to monetize viewing NSFW rather than remove it; probably as something like a show of force to investor on how they’ve “successfully” monetized both the advertizer friendly and unfriendly segments of their platform.
Matching up more with what you said, I also think they’ll at some point make a blanket SFW designation for subs like the current blanket NSFW one, and then bully subs into opting into it (or splitting into one of each). I expect having a stronger SFW/NSFW split will make selling SFW reddit even easier to advertizers, and if they’re able to make the two legally distinct enough, to those restrictive countries you mentioned. This all feels like too much to foist on the community before the IPO, so I expect it’ll be billed as a potential avenue for Reddit’s “growth”. After the IPO, I do expect something along these lines to happen as things start to spiral the drain faster.
Oh no criticism here. I think it was a very pragmatic time for any loli-tangential community to jump ship and ride the “current event” wave to (hopefully) better conversion numbers. I just have serious doubts of the staying power of any community that isn’t intrinsically obligated to move off Reddit, at least currently. So I’m sticking with Reddit over the, uh, Burggit-less section of Lemmy, if for nothing else the morbid curiosity of watching things deteriorate in the subs I read.
Interesting! I never really paid much attention to the Touhou subs, but now that you mention it - having someone loli friendly or even just loli neutral still in a moderation position for a NSFW sub is not something I’d expect this many years into the loli purge. I salute you.