i can’t stand megathreads – no one reads these! no one wants their posts banished there!

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    1 year ago

    This may be an unpopular option since I’ve already seen it across lemmy, but the ____porn communities. I’d like to browse pictures of nice landscapes or exotic cars without worry about someone around me noticing “PORN” on my screen.

    At this point it seems very old internet, something that made sense when those communities were established, but now is unnecessary gratuitous and not socially acceptable.

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      1 year ago

      I saw a post about a community created here called “pixel passport” which I thought was a hell of a lot better that “earth porn.”

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          1 year ago

          Voat, when it was still around, had this same discussion and settled on using _Pix for everything.

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            11 months ago

            What a wild site that was, some real loons were on it, but I did appreciate the fact it wasn’t so overly moderated. At the end though it just felt like a sanctuary of hate that had driven out most of the sane people.

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          1 year ago

          Indeed. I like ‘Earthporn’ too, but I think it should be all nature pictures that look like genitalia and suchlike. Rocks or trees that look like penises for example.

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      1 year ago

      Damn, I had forgotten how obnoxious that was on Reddit. Blocked all of those years ago because it was just unnecessary and a gross way to qualify otherwise unremarkable photos.

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        1 year ago

        It never bothered me per se, but it’s definitely awkward to come across some chapter of human suffering on r/HistoryPorn.

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        1 year ago

        Blocked all of those years ago

        Hey, me too.

        because it was just unnecessary and a gross way to qualify otherwise unremarkable photos

        These subs lost all value years ago when they just became karma-laundering fronts.

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      1 year ago

      Couldn’t agree more. It sucks to try to bring someone to a new platform and go “you love decorating right? Then check /r/roomporn! No no, it’s not porn I swear… Sigh”

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      1 year ago

      Nothing like someone peaking over your shoulder and seeing you’re browsing r/AnimalPorn…

      I totally agree with you. Hopefully lemmy can be a little more mature with community names. (Yeah, yeah… I know the hypocrisy of my username… It’s my gamertag)

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      1 year ago

      Do you mean actual NSFW content or things being called “_____ porn” like “unix porn” or “fight porn”?

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      1 year ago

      I agree, but I also think that porn should still be welcome here. The issue is there needs to be better control over it entering the feeds, not that the communities themselves should be abolished.

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          1 year ago

          Oh duh I always hated the names of those subs. The only thing worse are subs like InterestingAsFuck and NextFuckingLevel which always gave the same vibes as a Watchmojo video.

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            1 year ago

            always gave the same vibes as a Watchmojo video.

            Oh, that’s because those subreddits were literally astroturfed and the mods were shills making money off of the products being shown off.

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        1 year ago

        I’ve tried a couple apps and it looks like they’re trying to at the very least not have uncensored porn on your all feed. So that’s a step up.

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      1 year ago

      I agree on the names, but I’m really missing that kind of content. The ________porn communities from Reddit were a treasure trove of stuff.

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      1 year ago

      Funny you say that cause I’ve been here less than a day and already have seen more porn in All than I ever did on reddit’s /r/all.

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      1 year ago

      That and the unnecessary profanity.

      Subs like nextfuckinglevel. It just seems so immature.