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Makes sense. Not exactly advertising friendly content for them to monetize.
That's been true for the past 10 years. What's changed? edit: They sold to Medialab in 2021. That's what's changed.
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You can just post directly to Reddit now.
You have to wonder how long that's going to last, though, as Reddit is in the same situation of quietly tolerating pornographic content while not explicitly promoting it. The worst possible outcome for Reddit is that this move shines light on how many porn communities exist on reddit, which causes media scrutiny, which causes advertisers to bail or threaten to bail, which causes Reddit to ban NSFW subreddits, which s…
I'm still waiting for the day when people will stop being absurdly neurotic about sexuality and just let people share their stuff as long as it's age flagged appropriately. It's so absurd that the most normal thing on earth is put into the same moderation category as harassment or hate speech.
That’s what happens when you deal with companies from the US.
At some point imgur built a front page. Initially it mirrored reddits front page. And then it diverged, and very strangely for an image hosting site, most of the content on the front page was text. Often about current events, engaging in a superficial way (so, falling into the traps that HN is set up to avoid) but sometimes just tweet screenshots. This i guess is another move away from image content for imgur. Dunno.
There's this weird world of people who get their memes from Imgur directly and don't know about reddit or their other sources Looks like the shadow theatre has a captive audience
Imgur will also be deleting images that aren't associated with a user account. https://help.imgur.com/hc/en-us/articles/14415587638029/
"We will be focused on removing old, unused, and inactive content that is not tied to a user account"
What is old, unused and inactive?
That could be 10 year old images or 10 month old images. I have no idea.
Is an image getting regular hits going to be deleted? Who knows...
I guess many will still be on archive.org if someone is late to the party downloading a backup.
Tumblr 2.0 incoming? It's a not-so-unspoken fact that a lot of social media platforms are popular because they have tons of pornography. Reddit, Twitter, OnlyFans (more openly) and (until now) Imgur all have massive communities around explicit content. Even Twitch and YouTube are hugely successful as ways for OnlyFans creators to drive users to their explicit content. Going to be very interesting to see if imgur drop…
My uninformed impression is that Tumblr users were relatively unique in how freely they mixed pornography consumption and non porno. There are some Twitter users who do this, but Twitter is public enough that most people are wary of doing that or get caught by follows, likes being public. My anecdotal experience is that I don't see porno comments or submissions from most reddit users either, but that's obviously skew…
Can we please stop using “NSFW” as a euphemism for porn? I feel like I’m going crazy today between this and Reddit. The standard for something to qualify as NSFW is much lower than straight up pornography. It was originally anything you wouldn’t want your boss to see you looking at if he walked up behind you at your cubicle. The use of the term is incredibly vague. If you’re banning porn just say you’re banning porn…
If you actually clicked the link before posting it specifies more than just porn. And porn is the most interesting aspect as it's morality is much more debatable than hate speech, doxing people, etc.
I actually feel like it makes the title of the submission inaccurate and my point still stands there.
I'm surprised imgur still exists. It's been years since reddit started doing their own image hosting, and that was basically the only thing anyone used it for.
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That’s what happens when you deal with companies from the US.
Amen. Sex is bad but violence and the weekly mass shooting circuit are great and good for the kids. God bless America.