the 18+ click thru on posts is self-applied to begin with! it isn't some status automatically applied by the authorities (though i'm sure untagged NSFW will be moderated) so it doesn't make sense to talk about this as some Safety Structure that is being subverted when the user making the post has to participate in good faith in the first place for it to even matter!
If someone is a Good User then they would apply the 18+ tag to their 18+ posts on cohost, and only use the proposed "share (18+)" link to share outside of the site to places where posting that would be appropriate, because demonstrably they are interested in appropriately tagging NSFW work and links
if someone is Not A Good User then why on earth would they even tag the post to begin with? Nothing is actually stopping them or anyone else from doing anything with the content. It's the same with discord - Nobody is 'circumventing' anything that they didn't already apply to themselves voluntarily!
i've never intentionally exposed minors to porn, and i don't think
i've done it unintentionally either. i was pretty clear that my use
case of interest is in discord channels that are already flagged 18+,
i.e., spaces where someone has already passed an age gate. i
even said this specifically because i knew someone might try to be a weirdo
about it, because i know there are people who cannot resist adding a
sprinkle of extra details to my life that they "remember". it's kind of fucked up to turn "my spouse was careless about what they linked where, some 12 years ago" into "haha classic eevee", like this is all a big joke to you, and all that matters is that you get to do a cute lil dunk on someone.
the request is not for cohost to magically divine whether it is being embedded in an 18+ discord channel — it is for some manual mechanism by which i, the artist trying to link my own work in my own adult spaces, may inform cohost that it is being embedded in an adult space.
just posting to say this would improve the usefulness of the site for me quite a bit. would be cool if links worked in discord embeds too!
eevee
currently, if i drop a link to an 18+ post in e.g. discord, the embed simply displays
"this post contains 18+ content"
which is a reasonable default, but in an environment like a nsfw discord channel, everyone has already agreed to see 18+ work. so at best this is redundant, but at worst people may not even realize it's supposed to be a link to artwork.
this isn't like massively inconveniencing, but i've already seen several artists trip over it, and it seems like it discourages use of cohost as a "canonical" adult art host.
(i don't know exactly what this would look like. you could slap another path segment on the end, but then any ui, as well as making the response contain both a redirect and the appropriate meta tags, are left as an exercise to the reader)
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