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Reddit will allow users to upload NSFW images from desktop:
Reddit announced Thursday that it will now allow users to upload NSFW images from desktops in adult communities. The feature was already available on the social network's mobile app.
[...] "This now gives us feature parity with our mobile apps, which (as you know) already has this functionality. You must set your community to 18+ if your community's content will primarily be not safe for work (NSFW)," the company said.
Reddit's announcement comes days after Imgur said that the image hosting platform was banning explicit photos from May 15. At that time, the company said that explicit content formed a risk to Imgur's "community and its business". Banning this type of content would "protect the future of the Imgur community."
Many of Reddit's communities rely on Imgur's hosting services. However, the social network allowing native NSFW uploads through desktop might be the most logical solution going forward.
Image hosting is not the only hurdle for NSFW communities. Last month, when Reddit announced that it will start charging for its API, the company also said that it will limit access to mature content available through its API. This would directly impact the experience on third-party Reddit apps. In yesterday's announcement about desktop upload for NSFW images, a Reddit staff members said that the company is discussing how to navigate this situation.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by turgid on Sunday May 21, @06:03PM
You make some very good points. The free speech absolutists say that "sunlight is the best disinfectant" and the idea is that all ideas, no matter how abhorrent, should be aired in public so that they can be considered and countered.
That's a laudable goal, and I value my free speech, such as it is in the UK.
We have faced a serious issue in the last decade or so where online public communications and discussions have been swamped with unsettling and unsavoury increasingly politically extreme arguments, some advocating separatism, genocide, war, misogyny, racism and all sorts of abhorrent things that we thought we had largely dealt with in the last century.
My grandparents' generation fought a rather nasty world war for their survival and for freedom, free speech, racial harmony, and humanist values.
Living memory has largely faded now. History is not well taught. Critical thinking skills are apparently in short supply. We have XBox, Facebook and TikTok.
I like to think I do my bit, standing up to the Alt-Wrong whenever I can, using my disinfectant on their inane and inhuman ramblings, history denial and hatred. The thing is, there are a lot of them. We know for a fact that certain groups, whether they be political parties, lobbying groups, governments and so on, pay people to troll for the Alt-Wrong. We (in the UK) have an Alt-Wrong sympathetic and apologist media (the Daily Mail, Daily Express, Daily Telegraph, BBC News, GB News - run at a loss by the Alt-Wrong, and many others). The head of the BBC recently had to stand down for a corruption scandal where he lent a large sum of money to the former Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnston.
There's big money and big bigotry behind it. They think we've forgotten the 20th century. I haven't. Many people now are too young to know much about it (they haven't heard of East Berlin or how it got to be). They haven't heard of Franco or Mussolini and they don't know how Hitler came to power or what propaganda the German National Socialists got elected on.
The National Conservatism movement worries me greatly. Someone with the time needs to to a critique and a comparison with certain historical political movements. A certain Mr Farage has recently announced that his precious Brexit has "failed." He's blaming all sorts of people, including politicians for being too left wing, despite reality.
These vested interest have the upper hand because they have huge resources on their side. They can flood the public discourse with whatever poison they choose and we are effectively powerless. The pen is mightier than the sword, but when you are outnumbered by orders of magnitude of mercenaries, you don't stand a chance.
I'm not advocating censorship or the curtailing of free speech. That goes against my instincts and my thoughts. However, we the ordinary people, need to organise ourselves better. We have been divided and we are being ruled. We need to come together in the spirit of peace, friendship and cooperation to defeat the dark forces with the peaceful power of words.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].