Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur
umbrellacloud@leminal.space 4 days agoAs social media? I’m getting old. It used to just be an image hosting site.
Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur
umbrellacloud@leminal.space 4 days agoAs social media? I’m getting old. It used to just be an image hosting site.
Candice_the_elephant@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I’m so old I remember the first post. Hey you can host images for reddit here. The other image hosting sites at the time sucked, they were slow, purged content frequently, and were full of ads. I signed up immediately and imgur was good for almost 10 years and nearly the only place images from reddit reddit users were hosted. I think the pressure to monetize combined with reddit’s own image hosting push sent them into the enshitification death spiral.
merc@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
I never signed up, mainly because there was never any need to sign up. You could just go there, paste an image, and get a link to it.
Why would you sign up? It would be like signing up to use a URL shortener.
Candice_the_elephant@lemmy.world 4 days ago
If you save the images to your account, you can repost them when the thread calls for it.
eg I have a photo of my foot when I broke it off at the ankle. It comes up occasionally and the link is still usable years later. You also have more control over visibility (and posting to Imgur users etc, ie don’t).
For throwaway memes you’ll never want to share again, treating it like a url shortener is great.