LOL. Also, Reddit had Escorts? seriously? I mean I knew they had shoplifting and drug selling communities, but I guess everything really is on Reddit. And now they are going to have to clamp down, HARD, on the community and piss off even more people.
Aaron is laughing in his grave.
Craigslist is shutting down all personals https://gizmodo.com/craigslist-is-shutting-down-its-personals-section-1824011480
Damn I have some memories about Craigslist personals. Even lost my virginity almost eight years ago due to one of them. I actually responded to a girl's ad and turns out she was real. Used them a good deal a couple of years ago but it has been over fifteen months since I used them due to currently being in a relationship that I enjoy a lot. This relationship happened due to plenty of fish not Craigslist. The end of an era.
Don't forget that they also banned subs devoted to sharing alcohol, and /r/gundeals, which doesn't involve user-to-user transactions at all.
It's all part of a move to a sanitized social media platform. Which is a shame, since I tried for a long time to ignore the fact that it was turning into Facebook with strangers. Hopefully the niche subreddits will still keep their communities, which is really the only reason I go there now.
It absolutely is. Reddit was at its best when it was essentially a hub for random guru sites and insights into people's lives - the big subreddits, especially the defaults have been getting all the attention and advertising revenue, but the real gold has been down in the niche communities. And now it looks like they're moving to stomp out all that individuality and make the whole site into a series of ugly identikit pages serving up a bland paste that appeals to advertisers and investors. And, coincidentally, here I am experimenting on Hubski all of a sudden, and I'm probably not the only person in this boat...
Agreed. /r/neutralpolitics and some of the religion-oriented subs are about the only places I post anymore.
I saw their new rules that were implemented hastily following the Parkland shooting, and it banned a bunch of things including drug and alcohol sales, gun sales, and "paid services involving physical sexual contact". SESTA might have played a role in that entry, but prostitution is more illegal than most things on the list. They also banned a dark web market and I think a gun board or two. Don't get me wrong SESTA is a shitshow and I hope the courts defang it to the best of their ability, but the timing is likely coincidental.
There was a hooker subreddit? I guess panty selling subreddits and random acts of blow job might be next?