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The porn goblins.
Killer name for a garage rock band
Aka The Gooners
Out of the loop what's occurred?
.......dear Lord it's gone, it's all just gone.....
USA is going full Handmaid's Tale to outlaw pornography by defining "obscenity" in the broadest possible terms and OP is conflating that with a sudden apparent disappearance of significant amounts of NSFW content on Lemmy wondering if instances potentially hosted in the USA are trying to get ahead of it by removing/defederating such content, which is honestly probably plausible.
Edit: For what it's worth, I'm outside USA and using an outside-USA instance and I don't see any difference in lemmynsfw.com or elsewhere, so if this is legitimately happening and not just a brief technical hiccup, it's probably either related to lemmy.world (judging by everybody here being from lemmy.world) or geoblocked in the USA specifically.
Lol this bill will never pass, and there's still plenty of NSFW content available on Lemmy.
Just like all the other horrible shit that's happened that "will never happen" amirite
Yeah. It's not like rich people will have trouble accessing their favourite flavors of pornography regardless of the laws.
They "can just grab them by the pussy" after all.
Not according to me, I've had a pretty good track record of predicting what will and won't happen with this administration.
I don't think it will pass this time... but people were telling me roe v Wade was safe when I was raising alarms a decade ago and now look where we are. The theocrats and facists mean what they say and they're way more persistent and capable than people give them credit for.
Some old fucking turtle spend 40 years of effort to do that.
If I had a quarter for every bill that passed that was "unpassable" I would have a pocket of quarters.
Bet you a nickel this bill won't even make it out of committee.
It's entirely possible there's an issue with lemmynsfw.com that either has screwed up federation, or the majority of their content. I'm at work so I can't investigate right now but I'd bet it'll be fixed by the end of the day
I also noticed this. Mine are not disabled in settings. Seems like they all disappeared a day or two ago. Going into their communities shows no posts there. None are showing up in the regular feeds.
When I visit a community, I can see the total number of posts, but the main screen tells me nothing is there. What happened?
I did a quick “NSFW” search and can confirm there are recent (as in 1-2 hours old) nsfw posts and they are viewable. I did not search for communities, just posts.
Edit: clicking the community shows it empty even though new posts exist.
I love having my own instance. :-p
Oh wow, I hadn't realized until you pointed it out. Did we get Tumblr'd?
There is also a good chance you're instanced blocked lemmynsfw.com and any other instance that allows NSFW content. Laws on this stuff very greatly around the world and these folks who voluntarily offer a fedi server around the globe don't want to risk being held responsible, particularly if someone posts child porn on a different instance and because of how ActivityPub works that trash ends up being stored on the server in your closet.
You probably have it disabled in your profil.
If OP had changed anything themself, they would probably not have asked. I do confirm that for me the content of nsfw communities became invisible today.
First rule of IT: Users Lie. People push buttons and don't remember all the time
Also could've accidentally blocked the instance. Have you checked your settings, OP? Some clients let you block entire communities and servers from the feed.