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I have always loved flickr, and always worrried investor or wall street pressure would ruin it by causing it to censor more. Flickr has been able to keep naugh
by stevenicr 9y ago
I have always loved flickr, and always worrried investor or wall street pressure would ruin it by causing it to censor more.
Flickr has been able to keep naughty pics and groups and made mini social network groups that don't require real names. It's a little known bastion of the old net in some ways.
Now that oauth is pushing these logging / sharing terms updates, I am glad they are getting rid of flickr. I just hope they don't start censoring more and become ruined by investors who push mainstream ad revenue acceptance over having less censored sharing.
I understand they have ways to download your pics in batches to move elsewhere, however for me it's the groups of people who share similar things, comments using aliases, community from around the world, others sharing pics from events I'll likely never be able to visit, and easily creative commons narrow searches by type of license.
There is no way to download all of that... wonder how as much as possible could be ported from and to scuttlebutts groups, buddypress systems and the like.
It was sad watching tumblr and so many others get ruined by greedy overlords, I hope this great portal does not end the same way, and smugmug will let me continue as is.
- fencepost 9y agoI believe elsewhere in the thread someone stated that SmugMug's terms (including on content) would also apply to Flickr starting in late May, so that's something to look into.
- stevenicr 9y agothanks for pointing this out, took me a bit to find the terms. There is this gem "obscene, pornographic, indecent, lewd, sexually suggestive, hateful, harassing, threatening, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, abusive, inflammatory, fraudulent or otherwise objectionable or harmful, including without limitation: Photos, Videos or other User Content containing nudity that would be unacceptable in a public museum where minors visit;" Looks like they are ruining flickr right out the gate. thankfully it is quite easy to start a flickr clone these days. buddypress with rtmedia or mediapress and bam it's done. I was going to start podcasting with anchor fm, but reading over their terms it would be trivial for one group to to get another banned easily and vice versa, so there is no staying power / ownership of data there. Seeing the loss of data when an account is deactivated at tumblr, fbk, gplus, or other portals, it's not worth creating a community or group within these digital sharecropping portals.
- onethumb 9y agoFlickr has its own Privacy Policy [0] and Terms of Service [1]. [0] https://www.smugmug.com/about/privacy-flickr https://www.smugmug.com/about/privacy-flickr [1] https://www.smugmug.com/about/terms-flickr https://www.smugmug.com/about/terms-flickr