[stevenicr]

whats the current censorship level?

I seem to recall a buyout and some kind of 'certain things are no longer allowed' changes.

Similar thing happened with tumblr, then they semi-reversed a little but not a lot I think.

Stopped using both because losing content and accounts with no customer support is the internet way apparently.

[onethumb]

We rely on self- and community-moderation. As long as content is flagged appropriately, we allow and embrace content that's often banned on other platforms, such as artistic nudes.

Not everything is allowed, though - here's the list: https://www.flickrhelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/20529310987796-...

We do have real, human, in-house customer support. It's good and fast.

[stevenicr]

When an account is banned does support offer an export?

My experience with similar 'some things are okay, we know it when we see it' - is that support is extremely hostile if it responds (vimeo) .. non-existant if you are banned (google, meta / facebook)

and most often "sorry everything is deleted, your content, friends list, messages - all gone." (all of the above including tumblr)

So yeah, building content and friend's lists on other people's farmland is a thing of the past. with censorship that costs you friends and data people are better off self hosting and doing the fediverse thing, or going to places that explicitly allow almost all explicit things.

There was a time when flickr was very cool for sharing and making friends with people in niches that was to hard find in many places, same with tumblr and it was ruined in a similar way.

It's fine, and I completely understand, it's just not what it once was. Many things are not.

[joenot443]

That list is super reasonable, FWIW.

No hate speech, no Nazis, no pornography, no weird screenshots, no spam.

Nothing surprised me, basically what I’d expect.

[onethumb]

Thanks! We think so. :)