I find it utterly fascinating that Reddit is able to maintain such a huge porn collection with relatively little attention. I wish I knew what percentage of submissions were in NSFW subreddits, but I wouldn't be surprised if it were the majority.
Maybe it's because they're not trying to make money off of it? I don't think they run ads on NSFW subreddits.
I wonder if there's a market for something like how strip clubs operate -- where the artist pays OnlyFans to stream there, and then the artist collects their income some other way (e.g. Patreon, or just direct cash equivalents). That could in theory keep OnlyFans good with their payment processors, while still keeping this revenue stream at least somewhat open.
> I find it utterly fascinating that Reddit is able to maintain such a huge porn collection with relatively little attention.
I suspect they're working in the same direction, no? For example a few months back they removed NSFW from /r/all. They didn't just make it user-config'd SFW by default, to my knowledge you cannot browse NSFW content on /r/all. So they sort of ghosted that entire genre on their site.
The problem with r/all is that iy does not show "all" since a long time.
They removed political spam and porn, but also lots of subreddits opt out to be shown there (e.g. sports subreddits).
As much as I hated the political spam from various TD clones, it is sad that there is no way to see "real" r/all and perhaps one that allows to remove porn and politics.
Yea i also used to enjoy it more when i believed it to be literally "all" - as far as i can tell it's an alternate front page. My wife and i have different /r/all's for example, meaning they seem to rank links similarly to your subscribed frontpage.
The web is far more interesting to me when not curated for what something thinks i want.
>I find it utterly fascinating that Reddit is able to maintain such a huge porn collection with relatively little attention. I wish I knew what percentage of submissions were in NSFW subreddits, but I wouldn't be surprised if it were the majority.
All reddit NSFW content has been removed from /r/popular and /r/all about two months ago.
I think they're getting ready for an IPO.
All that porn probably won't be there anymore in a few years.
> All reddit NSFW content has been removed from /r/popular and /r/all about two months ago.
I think they're getting ready for an IPO.
Bingo. Back in the days one of the most popular subreddit was /r/jailbait (I won't explain what that is here, you can search for it in DuckDuckGo in private mode). Back in the days free speech was huge on Reddit and the admins did quite the mental gymnastics to appease the concerns of the community over free speech. Of course this was done just around the time they got investor money.
Not that I mourn the loss of this kind of content but it really makes you think how low free speech have fallen in terms of priorities going from "we won't even ban jailbait" to "let's ban distasteful subs" and being more prude than my religious grandma in certain aspects. Now it's nearly impossible to post a link in the default subs and nearly all the top comments are obviously bought accounts.
Given how janky the last few years of website updates on reddit have been, the sheer user hostility might be reason enough alongside 0 monetization that keeps it afloat.
Maybe it's because they're not trying to make money off of it? I don't think they run ads on NSFW subreddits.
I wonder if there's a market for something like how strip clubs operate -- where the artist pays OnlyFans to stream there, and then the artist collects their income some other way (e.g. Patreon, or just direct cash equivalents). That could in theory keep OnlyFans good with their payment processors, while still keeping this revenue stream at least somewhat open.