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- comicallycluttered ( @comicallycluttered@beehaw.org ) English67•1 year ago
Man, the last few months have been wack.
Reddit kills third party apps (and drives away moderators, making some subs ridiculously terrible permanently, eg. /r/IAMA, in case no one’s up to speed on that drama), Imgur bans NSFW content and deletes everything not uploaded by registered users, Twitter just goes fucking crazy (although that can really be attributed to one idiot), RARBG dies, Google
killssells off their domains to SquareSpace, Gfycat is just getting rid of everything, Netflix kills password sharing and plays a major part in holding back negotiations with the WGA, Zaslav kills HBO Max and turns it into reality TV central, Red Hat pulls a Canonical, Mastodon is in a potentially precarious situation with Meta…That’s just off the top of my head. There’s probably a bunch more I’m forgetting.
2023 is fucking wild. Might as well get ready for the next “We Didn’t Start The Fire” cover. There’ll probably be enough crazy tech/social media shit for every verse before the end of the year.
- Jesus_666 ( @Jesus_666@feddit.de ) English13•1 year ago
By the end of the year Steve Wozniak will be the CEO of Microsoft, YouTube will no longer allow videos in French, and the UN will recognize Mastodon as a weapon of war after it’s somehow the deciding factor in Ukraine. And then in 2024 the weird stuff will happen
- MoonRocketeer ( @MoonRocketeer@beehaw.org ) English2•1 year ago
I hope the weird stuff means that polka music makes a comeback.
- ramius345 ( @ramius345@beehaw.org ) English1•1 year ago
China invades Taiwan?
- VerbTheNoun95 ( @VerbTheNoun95@sopuli.xyz ) English10•1 year ago
Funny enough, a new version of We Didn’t Start the Fire came out last week.
- Louise ( @Louise@lemm.ee ) English5•1 year ago
Funny enough, an artist called Fallout Boy did recently do a We Didn’t Start The Fire parody to try and be more up to date on content.
That said, aside from being completely out of order, it’s controversial for some of its… questionable lyrical choices, for lack of a better word.
- comicallycluttered ( @comicallycluttered@beehaw.org ) English1•1 year ago
I know. When I saw it on YouTube, I was like, “this should be fun” and then it was immediately ruined by nothing being in chronological order.
There are some other good ones, but I’m too lazy to look.
- LoamImprovement ( @LoamImprovement@beehaw.org ) English4•1 year ago
Honestly this feels more like “love it if we made it” part 2.
- TMoney ( @TMoney@beehaw.org ) English39•1 year ago
Wow, sad to see this much history go. It’s tough running an image hosting service.
- MariaTacobellina ( @MariaTacobellina@beehaw.org ) English19•1 year ago
Frankly I’m surprised Imgur has made it this long. I suppose it’s because they morphed into a community in and of itself.
- Phantome ( @Phantome@beehaw.org ) English11•1 year ago
I suppose it’s because they morphed into a community in and of itself.
I always found the Imgur community hilarious - I lovingly refer to them as sewer rats. Some of the communities I’ve been part of are less tech-savvy, and people accidentally enable the “post to community” feature on their images intended to be viewed solely on reddit. The Imgurians were not happy seeing designer goods in their feed.
- TMoney ( @TMoney@beehaw.org ) English10•1 year ago
Yeah, I remember when imgur came out when the previous image hosting companies started getting greedy.
- Scrubbles ( @scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ) English18•1 year ago
oh god damnit Can we get an open source alternative to gfycat and tenor? We can build in some slash commands everywhere for it.
Tenor has become so inundated with shitty
gifsads for shitty TV shows that it’s near unusable.$prompt> boromir this is a gift
response> (some gen Y in a shitty netflix show laughing)
- 𝓢𝓮𝓮𝓙𝓪𝔂𝓔𝓶𝓶 ( @SeeJayEmm@lemmy.procrastinati.org ) English13•1 year ago
The infrastructure costs money. It’s gotta come from somewhere.
I’d certainly welcome an Activitypub version.
- ReadyUser30 ( @ReadyUser30@beehaw.org ) English9•1 year ago
The issue with creating a gif hosting service is not the code itself (which open source would solve) but the cost of doing so and the fact its not very profitable.
- interolivary ( @interolivary@beehaw.org ) English6•1 year ago
Covering expenses (and let alone being profitable) is a huge issue with most online services. People are loath to pay for content and services even voluntarily nowadays, but they also don’t like ads (for a good reason, mind you), so staying afloat is tricky. Especially open source projects can have problems with this; I’ve seen many FOSS projects start getting hostile comments from users when they try to somehow monetize (even without it being “predatory” in any way) simply to be compensated for the time they put in
- TheBurlapBandit ( @TheBurlapBandit@beehaw.org ) English7•1 year ago
Social media and data storage/distribution has clearly become an integral part of modern society. Time for governments to treat them as the utilities they are.
- interolivary ( @interolivary@beehaw.org ) English3•1 year ago
Yeah, I definitely agree. Online services are still sort of treated as just being “fluff” in some sense, instead of huge parts of our daily lives that have similar implications that “meatspace” utilities do
- psudo ( @psudo@beehaw.org ) English3•1 year ago
It’s been a long time since I last heard millennials referred to as Gen Y
- Don't ask my name ( @Peeko@beehaw.org ) English15•1 year ago
I guess all these free services had to implode one day, I just didn’t think they’d all choose the same day…
- nromdotcom ( @nromdotcom@beehaw.org ) English13•1 year ago
Many of these have the same underlying external cause of money no longer being free so they can’t keep the merry-go-round going for their debt and/or their investors are no longer content to just pour more money into the engine.
- argv_minus_one ( @argv_minus_one@beehaw.org ) English12•1 year ago
I had wondered how image hosting sites were ever going to turn a profit. Guess that’s my answer.
- FlyboyM ( @FlyboyM@lemmy.fmhy.ml ) English12•1 year ago
Did they feel left out with all the news about Reddit and Twitter doing dumb shit?
- noodlejetski ( @noodlejetski@beehaw.org ) English8•1 year ago
Nippy. Kind. Langur.
:(
- Steinsprut ( @Steinsprut@szmer.info ) English7•1 year ago
Whoa, the memories
Checked my account and found video game clips from 8 years ago, nostalgic af
- HobbitFoot ( @HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ) English6•1 year ago
Guess the value of the company wasn’t in the gifs.
- YosemiteFinish ( @YosemiteFinish@lemmy.ca ) English3•1 year ago
Is redgifs gone too then
- schown ( @schown@beehaw.org ) English1•1 year ago
It appears that Redgifs was acquired by a third party a few years ago. Not sure who, though.
- wavesinger ( @wavesinger@beehaw.org ) English2•1 year ago
The end of an Era :(