[mylasttour]

It effectively is for large Reddit communities, as most of them rely on Imgur to upload NSFW content. There aren't many free image hosting sites as "generous" as Imgur (unlimited bandwidth, large sizes, no visible compression, "permanent") so it'll be interesting to see where they move to.

[shmde]

Reddit NSFW communities have already started their mass migration to redgif.

[ThatMedicIsASpy]

redgifs is the porn section of gfycat (old links redirect to redgifs)

[a_f]

It looks like redgifs may have split from Gyfcat (according to wikipedia). Interestingly gyfcat is owned by Snap[chat].

[gregoryl]

They moved ages ago. Imgur massively limits bandwith for NSFW images.

[sudosysgen]

You can just post directly to Reddit now.

[mjr00]

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 spells the end of Reddit.

[rchaud]

Reddit tolerates porn because the customer base for their ads product are overwhelmingly no-name companies that aren't in a position to dictate content standards.

[jabroni_salad]

more like it will be mastercard that bails. I wonder how many redditors that upload thtemselves have a form 2257 on file.

[aaronmdjones]

I wouldn't imagine 18 USC 2257 applies to people posting themselves to Reddit. Among other things, subsection a(2) requires that the content be mailed or shipped in interstate or foreign commerce, or intended to be. In other words, the law targets commercial pornography.

[midoridensha]

>which spells the end of Reddit.

This would probably be a good thing for the world, except for the loss of the NSFW subreddits. All the "normal" subreddits are cesspools.

[fknorangesite]

> All the "normal" subreddits are cesspools.

How dare you say this about my /r/DaystromInstitute

[mrexroad]

Haha, I recently discovered this sub after a decade+ of being off reddit. Good god.

[achenet]

nah, there are some good ones. The mechanical keyboard and ergomechkeyboards ones are fun to browse, bodyweightfitness is generally good, and I've started exploring the music production one recently, it looks nice.

[NavinF]

Not on NSFW subreddits. Unless this changed recently, you have to upload your image elsewhere and then submit the link to NSFW subs

[syntheticnature]

As best I can tell, Reddit's limitations on posting NSFW with Reddit hosting the image or video are implemented client-side, and unevenly across their first-party clients at that.

[jabroni_salad]

that is only for images in comments. image submissions to subreddits are still ok. A lot of communities have imgur-only rules due to other image hosts having lower retention or invasive UX.

[dageshi]

Best I can tell, you can't create image posts on NSFW posts via the New Reddit Desktop Site. You can via the mobile app.

[peanuty1]

This is also my experience.