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[–] alextastic 61 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What the hell is going on?

[–] Matdan 100 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Everything is falling down:

  • Google is dropping Reddit and Twitter from their searches.
  • Twitter is throttling Tweets and you have to signin to view anything. Which would be crazy antivaxxer radicals, so not missing anything. No more free API use.
  • YouTube is blocking you after 3 videos if you use an adblocker.
  • Reddit has killed all 3rd party apps among API changes
  • Now Gfycat is going, man that's like most of the sites I used since a kid. Imgur seems to be around still at least.
[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do ya remember photobucket? .. Pepperidge Farm remembers.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Pepperidge farm remembers pepperidge farm these days

[–] indomara 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And imgur banned porn and removed all posts not linked to a user account!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sorry but that's not accurate, they're removing inactive images from unregistered users.

[–] indomara 8 points 1 year ago

Our new Terms of Service will go into effect on May 15, 2023. We will be focused on removing old, unused, and inactive content that is not tied to a user account from our platform as well as nudity, pornography, & sexually explicit content. You will need to download/save any images that you wish to save if they no longer adhere to these Terms. Most notably, this would include explicit/pornographic content.

Huh. I didn't know they were keeping the active ones. Though one has to wonder how they define active.

[–] Zzombiee2361 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)
  • Imgur banned and purged NSFW images
[–] Captain_Nipples 21 points 1 year ago

Damn. Imgur was so awesome when it first came around. I remember the creator doing an AMA when he made it. It mainly served as a image hosting site, just for Reddit... Then it gradually went to shit

[–] loomi 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Facebook is looking might well run these days.

[–] MercuryUprising 4 points 1 year ago

That's because the only thing anyone uses it for is the marketplace, event listings and as a messenger

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Imgur seems to be around still at least.

For now

[–] Matdan 5 points 1 year ago

Hanging on by a thread

[–] RichardButt89 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh damn that YouTube bit is news to me. Mostly I just watch on my phone or ipad on my break at work, but always use an ad blocker at home.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Honestly, you don't even really need an ad blocker for YouTube. I just report every ad immediately and it skips through them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Imgur doesn't even load for me on Firefox Mobile + uBlockOrigin. It also tries to redirect me to their broken front end if I just want the .jpg file. I absolutely hate them and wish people would stop using it.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

After 2008, interest rates were set to zero and basically stayed there for the next 15 years. What that meant was that investing your money in literally anything was better than putting it in a savings account or loaning it to the government (bonds). What thatmeant is that any company with a dream and a product found themselves swimming in piles and piles of venture capital fund funds. And all that money meant that customers were getting a lot of stuff at or below cost from companies that had lots of cash to spend, and no real concern about making it back. Now the free ride is over and everyone is trying to cash in, only to find that’s not as easy as they made it sound to their investors.

Enshittification is a sexy concept and I understand why everyone has glommed on to it. Unfortunately, the interest rate explanation is the much more complete and correct one.