Submitted 14 hours ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.zip
https://www.404media.co/imgurs-community-is-in-full-revolt-against-its-owner/
The front page of the image hosting website is full of John Oliver giving the owner the middle finger.
Archived version: archive.is/…/imgurs-community-is-in-full-revolt-a…
I’m always surprised when I see an imgr link. Especially on reddit. Like, why can’t you just use the built in img upload function?
Back in the day, reddit didn’t host images.
I’m sure this will work this time, unlike when likely the same people did the same thing with reddit lol.
The equity firms that own places like this with tens of millions of users or more know that they will ultimately win simply because of inertia and momentum. It’s fucked because they’re preying on people’s sense of community and shit but that’s the world we live in now, you have to be ready to bail in the places you hang out online at a moments notice because at any moment some rich dick could be like “hmm, this could be a good performer in my portfolio, let’s get some intrusive advertising on there and cut services drastically”
The reality is that the bigger a website/service gets, the more money it costs to run. Something like imgur especially would cost absurd amounts of money to run. If it can’t be monetised then it will die. The same thing will happen to any competitors that pop up claiming to be better - it’s just the nature of business. Hosting and bandwidth and hardware and employees aren’t free.
Haven’t used imgur in ages. It doesn’t work always says over capacity.
That's them filtering VPN ips. If you try jumping to a lesser used server, you'll probably see the site working.
Recently, most internet sites and especially those relying in cloudflare are filtering VPNs, and often blacklisting IPs just because it hurts their bottom-line.
Use Rimgo! It’s a frontend for Imgur. Like Redlib for Reddit, Invidious for Youtube, etc.
Wait imgir was its own social media thing? I never knew lol.
There's do many image hosters out there.
The term “social media site” is used very loosely these days. Allow comments on anything? Congrats, you’re a social media site!
I just found out my boss would scroll imgur directly. I only ever knew it as the image host of choice on reddit. Very rarely I’d click thru an imgur link to an album and then stay on the site to scroll a few more images, but that’s it.
Oh, they have their own memes, comics, famous users/posters, copypasta, etc, except it feels more like your stuck on r/all with a smaller userbase. Comments are, I believe still locked at 140 characters, so conversation is severely limited. It was fun - I was an Imgur user for several years before I realized that Reddit was really everything I wanted from Imgur. Literally haven’t gone back since I switched to Reddit about 10 years ago
It even was imho pretty entertaining for a long time, up to about season 1 of don john.
Yeah, I only found out maybe last year that there's a whole community underneath it. Up until then I thought it was simply just an image hosting site.
Was hoping to find a few good alternatives in this commentsland
Rimgo, if you use something like LibRedirect then you probably use it already.
The point of good old Imgur was just to upload an image and have it hosted on a URL. Free hosting options now include Catbox and Github.
As for the social media aspect? Idk why you’d want to replicate that format of social media.
The comment sections on meme dumps are usually pretty fun. A lot of people have the perfect reaction gif for any situation
I know a bunch have gone over to discuit.org
What’s discuit like? I have heard of it but what’s the allure besides it’s not one of the big platforms?
I'm trying out a few, though I'll have more time to explore them and figure out what I like and don't like over the weekend.
I've signed up for discuit, and am looking back at tumblr, which I'd left for a while but still has good community.
I've signed up for imgpile, but there's some problem with the confirmation; I don't know if that's on me or them. And I've joined the waiting list for imgcat. I looked at imgchest. but there's too many ads and some AI stuff, so I'm skipping that for now.
I've added in a couple discord channels (Ellie and BSV); even if I don't think discord is a good replacement for imgur, it'll let me follow things for a while.
I'm not sure what to do with with two cat accounts I followed on imgur (KittensForDays and SigridRides); both post on YouTube went other social media, but I didn't use yt much, nor other social media, so ....
I edited my other comment to include a site more like imgur, cdn.imgpile.com
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 11 hours ago
The most effective protests against your capitalist overlords are to strike or boycott.
Everything else is just begging.
6nk06@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
Same. Imgur had a bad reputation for years but I didn’t know why. 404 explains that it has the same fate as reddit. Nothing will change then. Users will complain a lot but not move to another site.
To keep with the reddit comparison, there were a lot of bad events that should have triggered a massive migration, but it didn’t happen. People stayed on reddit and they still complain without doing anything about it.
Saleh@feddit.org 9 hours ago
But imagine having to choose a server from which to access the fediverse! This is just too complicated!
SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 5 hours ago
Yeah, calling this a “revolt” is absurd.