Following changes to its API access, users are forced to log in on the official Reddit app if they want to view NSFW content on mobile.

  • DrMango
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    2841 year ago

    Not just porn! Since reddit only has one such tag you can apply to posts, many subreddits were using the NSFW tag for a wider variety of reasons such as spoilers, content which may contain unsettling material (aka “triggers”), and more!

    • Meldroc
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      461 year ago

      The stoners on Reddit got screwed - many of the weed subs got the banhammer, and the rest got NSFW’d because spez wants Reddit as G-rated as Disney for the IPO.

    • neoman4426
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      191 year ago

      To be fair, there’s been a site wide spoiler tag for a few years now, but yeah before it was introduced people used NSFW for that if a community didn’t allow actual NSFW stuff or whatever

    • @[email protected]
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      111 year ago

      It’s not all NSFW. The Synology community I followed went full NSFW in protest and I can still view their subreddit. I cannot view subreddits such as watchitfortheplot. So somehow Reddit is differentiating.

      • @[email protected]
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        41 year ago

        Well I know they forced some subreddits go back to SFW if it was obvious the NSFW was just to protest. Maybe that’s the case for the subreddit you’re looking at?

        • @[email protected]
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          1 year ago

          NSFW means no ads as well.

          I also remember the announcement was sexually explicit content won’t be served through the api, so they must have a way to differentiate then.

      • @[email protected]
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        181 year ago

        How does reddit tell the difference? Is it just nsfw communities not in the api or all nsfw posts? There is no discrepancy at least in the UI between NSFW gore and NSFW tits.

      • Lemmin
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        61 year ago

        users are forced to log in on the official Reddit app if they want to view NSFW content on mobile.

        the OP literally said it’s for all NSFW contents.