I was convinced imgur was sold to Reddit. Although when searching for this it looks like I was wrong and they were instead sold to MediaLab, though apparently also a very shitty company.
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athos77@kbin.social 9 months agoI've been hanging out in imgur, which is generally nice for memes and cats, and kbin for news. It's been surprisingly effective.
takeda@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Pregnenolone@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It was created by a Reddit user for the purposes of hosting images posted to Reddit but it was never owned by Reddit
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Imgur is owned by the same parent company as Reddit
SaltySalamander@kbin.social 9 months ago
Imgur is owned by MediaLab. Reddit is owned by Advance Publications.
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Oh damn, my mistake
takeda@lemmy.world 9 months ago
No worries, I thought so too.
crsu@lemmy.world 9 months ago
You probably got it mixed up in your memory. It was owned by a reddit user, then sold
PunnyName@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Imgur is a shadow of the brightness it once was. After all the weird UI and ad changes. Plus the NSFW purge, among other issues.
schmidtster@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The user base is also incredibly toxic. Anytime you post a public picture you get ridiculed for using it to host pictures. Which is the entire point of it yeah? Sure you can also treat it like social media, but without the basis of posting pictures, it wouldn’t exist.
PunnyName@lemmy.world 9 months ago
That’s been the case for years now. It’s no longer an image hosting site, it’s an image-based social media site.
schmidtster@lemmy.world 9 months ago
All of their marketing says image hosting. Users don’t even understand their own walled garden.
Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Yeah imgur was literally made to host pictures on Reddit, because they didn’t have an image hosting service
Eggyhead@kbin.social 9 months ago
Have you checked out pixelfed?