[swarnie]

Reddit hasn't been hands off for about 6-7 years.... A lot of the hate, racism and legally ambiguous stuff left years ago for better or worse. Kind of unhappy they left a lot of the degen fetish stuff though, that's the thing stopping me admitting to using the service in public.

Now they have the lowest value user data of any social media company and are firing people from jobs they do for free (lol) to get the site working again.

[Seattle3503]

What degen stuff are you referencing. I found reddit allowed me to explore my sexuality and discover new things about myself. I'm glad it was never very judgemental about people's sexuality.

[swarnie]

I'm not going to rattle off the whole gross list but two which float to the top are all the MAP and Furry subs.

Now if children and animals are your bag of chips all power to you, its just not a website ill admit to using or potentially invest in if an IPO happened.

[Seattle3503]

I use to be very judgemental of the furry community until I got to know some of them. I don't think most of them actually want to fuck real animals. One thing popular in those communities is the Harness Test[1]. Basically, sex is okay between indoviduals where consent is possible, which seems reasonable. If that's the case, what purpose does our judgement server?

Something interesting about the furry community is that it has been welcoming to LGBTQ+ people and folks who are not neurotypical for decades. It's been a safe space for those peole. The furry community has been "ahead" of the rest of us in that regard. I think we could all learn something from them about tempering our impulse to judge with empathy and tolerance.

I had to look up MAP. I'm pretty sure that is against the reddit ToS, and I've never seen it on reddit since jailbait was shut down years ago.

[1] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/harkness-test