Hey everyone,
We want to be completely transparent about what’s been happening behind the scenes.
Over the past few weeks, Reddit admins have started cracking down on subs that post political, off-topic, or “low-effort” content — even when it’s obviously satire or harmless shitposting. Unfortunately, r/CirclejerkSopranos got flagged in that wave.
We were told, directly and indirectly, that if we didn’t clean things up, the subreddit could be taken down permanently.
What This Means
To avoid a ban, we’ve had to remove a lot of posts that don’t fit Reddit’s updated enforcement standards. That includes:
Political jokes or memes — even if they use Sopranos screenshots
Non-Sopranos posts, current-event edits, or general internet memes
Some of the more “random” or off-topic shitposts the sub used to allow
We know that kind of content was part of the sub’s identity and humor. We didn’t want to change it — but Reddit’s moderation team made it clear that if we didn’t comply, the entire community could be wiped out.
The mod team isn’t happy about this either. None of us want to over-moderate or kill the vibe — we’re just trying to keep the sub from getting banned.
Anyways $4 a pound. It’s up to you guys if you’d like to keep this sub around.
EDIT:
Whatever happens to this sub, thank you for the last 8 years. It’s been an honor to be joined by men of honor.
Ah salud
https://www.reddit.com/r/CirclejerkSopranos/comments/1ob5b3n/mod_update_reddit_cracking_down_on/
Lemmy has a… Strange aberration to anything porn/hentai in general, I know instance owners who live in certain countries can’t allow it due to legal reasons so they defederate anything sexy, but really close to the reddit exodus one of the most prominent complains were how people didn’t want to see anything sexy in their feed but didn’t want to turn on the nsfw filter because they still wanted to see news with graphic content in public.
Every now and then you can spot comments here and there about how people who like sexual things (like mods in their games or as a wallpaper in their pc) are bad and shouldn’t be enjoying it freely.
Or every time the lack of artists comes up, they don’t care about the fediverse because they know they will get shunned if they draw things a little too sexy.
The fediverse so far is prudish, bland and mid.