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Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content

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Re: Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content

#191
Wow, I remember reading the post of the creator of imgur that he made it specifically for reddit use. Then at some point they made it into this social platform and removed directly linking to images (or at least made it quite hard).

Now this, interesting to see a site from day 1 coming up and (probably) going down.

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#192

I wish imgur would go away entirely. It’s such a toxic community of people. If you are not aligned with their doctrine you get spammed with downvotes and some of the most hateful replies I’ve ever seen. You report it but it stays there.

Well the userbase seems to largely be edgy teens and those that failed to grow out of that mindset. It's all very capitalism-bad america-bad libs-go-fuck-themselves behead-landlords socialism-right-now and also children need to be beaten when they don't function right, which is when I got off that train.

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#193

To test this in practice, I just went ahead and uploaded an image of Michaelangelo's "David" which has been a topic of recent controversy. https://imgur.com/a/aTiH5lk Let's see if that violates these new "guidelines."

The guidelines have an example of a nude art statue and says it is okay.

Re: Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content

#194

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.

Unfortunately we can't have this discussion until we talk about the larger issue of society catering to people's made up fairy tale religions, which is the root of this puritanical anti-sex behavior.

If I said that Earth was at the center of the solar system, up is down and the sky is green you would tell me that I'm wrong and misinformed, but if I said that I believe in a magical man in the sky who can walk on water and will send everyone to Hell for eternity for looking at porn then suddenly my "faith" has to be respected and everyone else has to change their behaviors to accommodate it. It's utter nonsense.

Re: Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content

#195

The pendulum has clearly started to swing back to sexual repression. Society has started to see sexual freedom and expression as grotesque. Now the only question is how far it'll swing.

I think we live in an increasingly neo-victorian age. It's not just sex. It has become toxic to express a wide range of opinions. For example, the systematic deplatforming of conservatives. (I am a liberal, and my need to state that to be taken seriously is further evidence of all this.)

People aren't systematically deplatforming conservatives. People are systematically deplatforming hate. That that happens to affect one political party more than others is a condemnation of that party, not of the practice of deplatforming hate.

Post all the conservative political opinions you want. As long as you stay away from posting hate, personal attacks, and similar, you're not going to lose your Twitter account

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#197
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I also use old.reddit all the time but come on, you seriously can't mean it's a good mobile experience. The text is tiny and you need to zoom in and out all the time just to be able to read anything. It becomes exhausting reading a comment thread by all the zooming. The image posts also don't have the actual image embedded, which makes it a really bad experience on mobile when you have to go to another URL just to lo…

I agree, yet old.reddit is still 100x better to use than the main Reddit site, which really illustrates just how awful and user hostile their main website is (especially on mobile).

Definitely. I don't use main reddit at all, but on mobile there are no good alternatives now when i.reddit.com is gone and third party clients being restricted. Saying "just use old reddit" is not sufficient for me at least.

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#198
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You sure? Twitter is notoriously known for asking for users phone number in every account, its practically impossible to have an active account without adding your phone number.

Twitter literally lets you log in to multiple accounts from the same session. You can reuse the same emails & phone numbers too. So contrary to what you say, the practice of having "alts" is pretty much encouraged.

Their help page technically says you can use the same phone number on up to 10 accounts, but that hasn't been the case in 4–5 years or more. It's more like 2–4 accounts per number allowed in my experience, and there is a few week cooldown on reusing a number even if you've already removed it from all accounts.

I don't think you can use the same email on multiple accounts at the same time, but using address extensions or creating new emails is easy.

Re: Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content

#199
post #193

To test this in practice, I just went ahead and uploaded an image of Michaelangelo's "David" which has been a topic of recent controversy. https://imgur.com/a/aTiH5lk Let's see if that violates these new "guidelines."

The guidelines have an example of a nude art statue and says it is okay.

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Re: Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content

#200

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When you can go to old.reddit.com to view it, they're not actually forcing anyone.

If you know about it, and for as long as it exists. It's also not adapted for mobile.

This is one of the only reasons I use a chromium android build with desktop extensions enabled so I can have the old reddit redirect extension.
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