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Their whole front page has dozens of these same images. And I'm not much of a imgur user to dig around.

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[–] aramis87@fedia.io 238 points 1 day ago (6 children)

The people who created imgur sold it to MediaLab. ML had been struggling with bills in general, and they lost a couple lawsuits regarding content. In a completely unrelated move, they banned NSFW content, fired the community moderators and local development teams and replaced them with AI and overseas workers, resulting in unequal rules enforcement and broken infrastructure. Videos wouldn't upload, wouldn't play, or freeze partway through. Uploads would disappear without notice. A barely-nsfw post would be deleted and the user warned, while other more NSFW posts made it to the front page. Etc, etc. In short, there's been a lot of simmering discontent with the platform for a while now.

So, you remember that video/gif of Nazi Richard Spencer that's been circulating for a few years now? Back when that first came out, naturally some people posted it to imgur - and the content teams deleted the posts and warned the users, who promptly posted screenshots of the warnings, causing even more users to upload Richard Spencer getting punched in the face. They got deleted/warned, pretty much just causing a cascade of Nazi-punching content, until literally the entire popular feed was just Nazis getting punched.

Well, later last week, notifications failed on imgur for some reason - no notifications when you got a reply, or your post reached the front page or got an award, or the people you were following posted something - just dead silence. We were patient, but it started to annoy people. A couple people uploaded images complaining about the lack of notifications, only to have their posts deleted or hidden and in a couple cases they got warned. And it's pretty much spiralled exactly like the punching Nazis meme: notifications remained down, posts complaining about it got taken down, posts complaining about MediaLab's censorship got taken down, and then the entire front page became this.

Notifications are back on now, though they seem less frequent than normal, and new content is starting to reach the front page but users are still pissed. There have been repeated discussions about moving elsewhere, but no consensus has emerged yet. PixelFed doesn't scratch the same itch, a bunch of people moved to discord but others don't want to, some people just disappeared or stopped posting. And that's where we are, as of this morning.

[–] grahamja@reddthat.com 7 points 6 hours ago

Companies killing forums and communities by choice or apathy is so disheartening. They have so much control over what we see and talk about everyday, and they can even just turn the community off by providing poor service.

[–] Sarothazrom@lemmy.world 11 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Internet Historian could make a video on this in 3 years lol

[–] nevemsenki@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

That's some rather unrealistic optimism unless someone slipped some speed in his coffee.

[–] LemmyThinkAboutIt@lemmy.zip 4 points 11 hours ago

Damn, thanks for the write up! I had been on imgur since 2011, same time I joined reddit and only this year finally stopped using it. It seems to have rapidly gotten worse this year, now I know all the details.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 48 points 1 day ago (1 children)

you remember that video/gif of Nazi Richard Spencer that's been circulating for a few years now?

This? https://images.gr-assets.com/hostedimages/1671596634ra/33747797.gif

[–] Techlos@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 9 hours ago

the fact that he disappeared off the face of the planet after this only reinforces my feeling about deplatforming nazis

[–] rustyfish@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago

In a completely unrelated move, they banned NSFW content, fired the community moderators and local development teams and replaced them with AI and overseas workers, resulting in unequal rules enforcement and broken infrastructure. Videos wouldn't upload, wouldn't play, or freeze partway through. Uploads would disappear without notice. A barely-nsfw post would be deleted and the user warned, while other more NSFW posts made it to the front page. Etc, etc. In short, there's been a lot of simmering discontent with the platform for a while now.

Something similar happened to me.

“Your post has been taken down because of racism. You receive a warning.”

“What about it was even racist?!”

“Thank you for contacting us. The post was racist because it had racism in it. We slurp balls and smell farts.”

Or something like that. Can’t remember the specifics. It was clear to me that it was either a bot or someone not properly speaking the language.

Does anyone know any alternatives? I don’t care about the memes (or pictures to be precise). They kinda suck anyway but the videos are sometimes kinda cool.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why doesn’t pixelfed work for them?

[–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 38 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Pixelfed, in my head, is more like Flickr or Instagram.

Imgur is just a meme picture site.

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Used to be just an image upload site for Reddit mainly . But then enshittyfication happened as usual

[–] Landless2029@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Enshittification is always the end of most online platforms that aren't federated because hosting costs money. Maintaining costs people. Which is more money. Especially as you scale out with popularity.

First step is ADs. But ad blockers prevent that revenue stream.

Second is monetization. (Reddit Gold or some premium BS)

Third is selling out.

[–] neons@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I read "first step is active directories" and was super confused lol

[–] Landless2029@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

You and me both... I've switched to ADDS for OG win server AD though.

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[–] Bongles@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

When I first got to Lemmy i always thought a fediverse imgur would be neat. As the other comment said, imgur has been going down this path for a while, so i ended up leaving quite a while ago and never pursued the idea. Plus I'm not really knowledgeable enough to do it myself.

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[–] Thalion@lemmy.ca 257 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I remember when Mr Grim announced on Reddit that he was creating Imgur to replace all the shit image hosting sites. And now here we are

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 172 points 1 day ago (7 children)

I remember being perplexed a few years back when a coworker started talking to me about "imgur posts" and "imgur comments". I was like, "the image hosting site?"

So weird

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 144 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I noticed with amusement once that some of my uploads for Reddit had comments, even full discussions and unanswered questions addressed to me. It was like finding out the mice in the walls had built a shrine to me.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 1 day ago

It was like finding out the mice in the walls had built a shrine to me.

LOL

[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It was weird sometimes. Say you uploaded an image as a visual aid to a point being made on Reddit. It would make no sense without context, but you put it on Imgur because that’s what Imgur was made for. Shared on Reddit, the image successfully aided whatever you were trying to communicate. Mission accomplished!

But later you’d look back at the Imgur link, and find a bunch of annoyed Imgur-users complaining that your post made no sense.

[–] Raxiel@lemmy.world 8 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

You could just upload to Imgur and get a share link, but for the longest time it would default to also post uploads to the Imgur front page. Most random stuff would only get as far as 'user submitted ' before sinking into the depths, but anything engaging would get up voted to most viral and attract a lot of comments.

I used to be quite active in the Imgur community before the enshitification and it was always a bit of a meme the amount of random stuff that got into user sub unintentionally.

[–] LemmyThinkAboutIt@lemmy.zip 4 points 11 hours ago

Ah yes, the days of GTA screenshots in user sub.

[–] arschflugkoerper@feddit.org 38 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I remember the imgur Community being referred to as sewer people on reddit.

[–] warbond@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A weird form of arrogant elitism

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Also fucking rich considering the source. Didn't imgur start as a Reddit image host?

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago

Yes, but nobody visited imgur except to upload files. The people subsisting off of our contextless uploads were like morlocs!

[–] Pechente@feddit.org 38 points 1 day ago

Lol same here. I wish Imgur stayed a simple image hosting site

[–] BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

It's like if the underground rats of New York built their own society lol

[–] Bongles@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 day ago

I actually started on imgur before I used reddit at all. I used to browse "i am bored" as a kid/teen. Eventually I thought, man I really only want the funny images, is there something that's just that? That's when I found imgur and I was hooked. "Sarah please" and all that.

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[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It’s the circle of life.

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[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 251 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The AI company that purchased it gutted US staff and the users are revolting.

https://lemmy.world/post/35005300

[–] KindnessisPunk@piefed.ca 110 points 1 day ago (6 children)

The internet as we knew it is truly dead, huh?

[–] TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 129 points 1 day ago (6 children)

The old web is dead. The fediverse lives.

[–] EvilEdgelord@sh.itjust.works 40 points 1 day ago (4 children)

The real world is still here, too!

[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

It's just taking longer to die.

[–] iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world 61 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, but who would wanna live there?

[–] EvilEdgelord@sh.itjust.works 51 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I feel part of that MAY have been my fault

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[–] Thunderbird4@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

and the users are revolting

Yeah, they’ve always been a little off, haven’t they?

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[–] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 91 points 1 day ago (7 children)

I'm old enough to 'member Imgur launching, around Christmastime as I recall. It was a way to make posting images on Reddit easier. How small and cozy the internet seemed back then.

[–] TomMasz@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago

It seemed like imgur was the only hosting site for Reddit for the longest time. Then Reddit started self-hosting and imgur seemed to disappear.

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[–] threeonefour@piefed.ca 55 points 1 day ago (3 children)

News articles are saying Medialab, imgur's parent company, is using AI to moderate posts and it upset people.

[–] slevinkelevra@sh.itjust.works 48 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's only half the story. They fired the dev team, basic things like notifications broke and nobody was left to fix it. Also their imgur HQ is now gone, which was apparently a whole big thing for users to visit. Also the ads got super shitty, tons of ads ranging from implicit sexual images to outright sex toys or similar. This highlights the hypocricy as "the gif" is banned (https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-hulk-gif)

[–] slevinkelevra@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I almost forgot: They also made extremely shitty decisions like not allowing custom tags anymore and a combination of shitty content moderation and people refusing to tag politic posts as such plus everything without any messages from the non existent dev team lead to a mass exodus. Even their discord server shut down where they organized community events like secret santa and live get togethers. They then had to lower the threshold for posts to reach the front page to 50 points. Posts there now get a few hundred upvotes, highlighting the downsizing from tens of thousands of points.

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago

LOL. LMAO, even.

Get fucked, Imgur!

[–] Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm glad I got away from imgur. What I wanted was simple: an image hosting service that didn't try to be something it's not, or change its UI every five seconds. Been using imgbb, I like it.

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