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    • @[email protected]
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      1 year ago

      imgur is also in a downward spiral of entshittification though. No uploading without an account, and all old images uploaded by people with no accounts are going to get deleted.

      They want to be a social media site now, not an image hosting site.

      • AggressivelyPassive
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        121 year ago

        I mean, how can you monetize free image hosting?

        Not in a greedy capitalist way, but simply paying for servers, developers and coffee. There’s hardly any revenue stream in image hosting. So a pivot to a more social media like site makes sense.

        • Victor Gnarly
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          61 year ago

          Not sure if folks have realized we’re at the end game of free internet money.

          • @[email protected]
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            11 year ago

            Oh tell me about it and it is effecting everything. Podcasts are being canceled or networks are talking about canceling shows. Every podcast I listen to talks about how ad money is drying up and that is probably the reason sites are closing down.

        • Victor Gnarly
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          21 year ago

          Not sure if folks have realized we’re at the end game of free internet money.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          I definitely agree with that, and I really don’t have a good answer on how to create a financially secure image hosting service. But I do think that criticism of how they are approaching it on imgur at the moment is legitimate. In particular their intention of deleting pictures uploaded before the deadline by non-account users. This will only add to the unfathomable amount of link rot going on atm all over the internet.