 Imgur blocking Adult/NSFW content is most likely influenced by their monetization strategy. You know why they (and Tumblr/IG) want to block Adult/NSFW content? Ads. Advertisers don't want their ads (and brand) to be associated with adult/NSFW content. We aren't beholden to advertisers, and embrace freedom of expression. We have no plans to ban NSFW content. 73 comments
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 @motionmaker @bloodaxe @pixelfed I'm not too sure that's the persistent of the general publicđ I agree! I was simply asking because you didn't specify any specific examples of better solutions đ   I think, if you're on the Internet, you should expect to see things you didn't expect. You can't rely upon, or expect people to sensor themselves appropriately to your needs. It's just not how it works. If you go to a football match you'll hear people swearing at the top of their lungs. I thought the entire point of the fediverse is having the ability to tailor the experience to what you want, without anyone telling you what to do? If people managed to, at bare minimum, tag their content correctly, that would be 100% possible with Content Warnings and tag-filters. @bloodaxe @pete @pixelfed well itâs also up to the server rules of the instance you are using. On mastodon.social any sensitive content (sexually explicit or violent media) has to be marked as sensitive before posting. What would be great is if we could have a few categories to be chosen from when we mark content as sensitive. That would let us filter content a bit more easily. @bloodaxe @pixelfed yes but I'm afraid it's too much work. like typing relevant alt text for pictures unfortunately, specifically in pixelfed. we should try to find a few categories that can easily be selected, but specific. so we could use those categories to filter our feed. avoid any sexual content, but keep arty nude or whatever. avoid video of people being killed, but keep the video of skaters failing to land a kickflip. or avoid them all together if you want. @aroom @pixelfed Yes but this assumes that all users of ActivityPub are using the system properly, and that they are not nefarious in their ways. And, as I'm sure we can both agree, humanity is anything but holy, wholesome and considerate in all their ways đ Not to mention: who decides what is sexual content, and what is "artsy nude"?  @pixelfed  @pixelfed But itâs much more than that: They delete all pictures that are uploaded without an account. @rogueren If your only problem is 'what to use now', you donât have a problem. There are tons of picture sharing sites. The real problem lies in communities that have used Imgur extensively to host their 'content'. These links will now all go into the abyss. @frumble but only Imgur has access directly from my screenshot tool, otherwise I have take a picture, save it, name it, find it in my file browser, open an internet browser, go to a sharing site, log in, upload, THEN share. Imgur I take a screenshot and click a button, link gets auto-copied to my clipboard @rogueren How many screenshot do you send your friends that this is such a big deal for you? Isnât this also really bad in a privacy perspective to upload screenshots to a public picture hoster? There might come a NextCloud integration in Spectacle.   Anyone remember Mr Grim announcing imgur with, âHey Reddit, I created an Image hosting site that doesnât suckâ? Or âHey Digg, I created an Image hosting site that doesnât suckâ? But then, imageshack and photobucket sucked so badly. But as time went, they got greedy and became what they called âsucksâ.  @newsorpigal news of tumblr's demise is vastly, vastly exaggerated. in fact, it was one of the best things to happen to the site from my perspective as a relatively late adopter, because many of the assholes left while a higher proportion of introvert art kids stayed. also, nudes are back, though hardcore explicit content is still banned.
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@pixelfed @pixelfed Fuck NSFW! They are deleting all anonymous uploads as well. This means all the old Reddit posts with Imgur links will be worthless. Including SFW posts. I have a few r/CoolGuides posts bookmarked on Reddit that link to Imgur. I need to save them until the end of this month, or they will be gone. @pixelfed I would guess payment providers play an even bigger part than advertisers themselves.  @pixelfed I think content warnings are great but I have discovered that once you put a content warning or mark the post as "sensitive content", there won't be any preview shown if you post the link elsewhere which is, in a way, punishing those who play by the rules. I don't have a solution for this because I don't know how this works on a technical level. It just would be nice if I could opt in to see adult content in link previews too. Thereâs a setting that allows admins to enable/disable that. You should ask your site/instanceâs admin. Hereâs mine. Iâm sure Mastodon has the same settings đ @pixelfed there is some users who does not want to be in an environnement where NSFW content can be easily accessible. Even if you are in a perfect world (we areânt) where all users mark the right content as NSFW, some users will simply go elsewhere who is more âfamily-safeâ. And a user might just avoid to open a site/app in a public place (example: in public transit) just to avoid the embarrassment of having NSFW stuff on the screen while kids could be around. @pixelfed An other tricky thing: itâs opens the door to a moderation nightmare. Ex.: How old the subject on the photo is? Sometimes, itâs not easy to say. And donât be wrong, cauz the hosting provider (who might just not allow some type of NSFW content in itâs ToS) can suspend or terminate the account where the site is hosted on.  @xavsworld @pixelfed there is that risk, but provided the app allows other Pixelfed instances which could set themselves up as family safe then folk who have concerns can just set their app to only use those instances (in the same way you can often lock a TV set or other device if you are going to let kids use it unsupervised..) on Fediverse there isn't "just one site", there''s literally thousands of them, and whilst most federate with one another, this can be limited in various ways (as can the federation of individual posts). So its possible to lock down an app or posts as the user wishes... Yeah Mastodon dot social has the highest incidence of XXX hard-core homo- and hetero-sexual porn i've yet to see on the #Fediverse Uncloaked by any of that prissy #CW crap So you're just formalizing the content format Good to know Good to know Also, bye... @pixelfed I do wish posters who do NSFW content would that hashtag. I need to filter it on an account that I need to check in public. Just saying NSFW in the text is not good enough as that filters out other posts, use the actual hashtag. It is for more than just finding posts. @pixelfed they are also deleting all the archived files, that means 18+ years of deleted user's content will vanish @pixelfed Perhaps this is true, but these same advertisers donât seem to have any problem being associated with right-wing extremists. Their priorities are quite perplexing. #advertising #NSFW To be clear though, the rules about what can be posted publicly, are not changing, at all,   @pixelfed Tumblr claims that they block the subset of nsfw they do, because otherwise credit card companies would refuse to do business with them (and so they'd find it difficult to be pair, even if advertisers were totally fine with it). I don't know enough about the context to know whether I should doubt this claim. Assuming it's true, that's a problem that might be shared by pixelfed instances of nontrivial size: their users might find it hard to donate money to cover operational costs. @pixelfed does that mean that the add will honor âshow contentâ settings selected by a user throughout, or will those continue to only apply to the main feed? Searching or selecting hashtags blur NSFW despite settings otherwise.  @pixelfed Are there ever plans to allow users to migrate their content from IG to PixelFed? Thatâs the only thing holding me back from going full time with it. I foolishly invested too much time into my IG account. Not really worried about the comments et al, but at 2000+ pics, manual migration, pic by pic, isnât feasible. I know Iâm just one dude, but maybe something like that could help others break the collar as well. Thanks for everything! |
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