Imgur's Community Is In Full Revolt Against Its Owner

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.

Ehh... There are more extreme things, but then that starts being something other than "protest".

At least these people are wasting imgur resources and removing value by cluttering up the site. If they'd keep it up and actually battle the shitlords, it'd be better than a removedboi boycott.

I think arson works very effectively, historically

Or other forms of asset destruction

Yeah, none of this hurts their bottom line. Calling it a "revolt" is absurd.

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.

The term “social media site” is used very loosely these days. Allow comments on anything? Congrats, you’re a social media site!

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.

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”

Yes, that's a bullshit lie. They give that error when they false-postive ban you, usually when you're using some tech to prevent them from tracking/fingerprinting you and selling your info.

Because, they have a policy of "fuck marginalized folks like domestic abuse survivors and refugees", apparently

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.

Yep, its VPN. The other thing that breaks imgur are some of privacy/spoof/security settings in Firefox. That said, I am in the same boat...been a while since I have used it to scroll

I use it daily and never have an issue. I wish there was a better site I could use cause it amazes me how often the app attempts to send my personal data to Meta (which I block, of course). But unfortunately Lemmy alone isn't enough to satisfy my need for fresh content ever since I left reddit during the API bullshit.

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.

I know a bunch of Imurgians have gone over to https://discuit.org/

Edit: there's also https://cdn.imgpile.com/ which is more like how imgur is set up.

https://www.imgcat.io/ is being built by an imgur user but it's not ready yet.

https://catbox.moe/

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 ....

Rimgo, if you use something like LibRedirect then you probably use it already.

I edited my other comment to include a site more like imgur, https://cdn.imgpile.com/

Back in the day, reddit didn't host images.