The front page of the image hosting website is full of John Oliver giving the owner the middle finger.
    • MotoAsh@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      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 bitchboi boycott.

    • 6nk06@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      4 months ago

      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.

      • Saleh@feddit.orgEnglish
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        4 months ago

        But imagine having to choose a server from which to access the fediverse! This is just too complicated!

        • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
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          4 months ago

          Tbf that’s a big deal for Mastodon aka Fediverse, not so much on the Threadiverse with K/Mbin, Lemmy, or PieFed.

          And the tools that exist to help are laughably bad - the last time I tried the auto-selector website it chose for me hexbear.net, and I noticed Lemmy.ml was prominently displayed up high in their listing (surely the Windows-using centrists and conservatives on Reddit will have no problems joining that extremist leftist instance of FOSS enthusiasts… r-r-right?!).

    • ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      4 months ago

      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”

      • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.auEnglish
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        4 months ago

        The reality is that the bigger a website/service gets, the more money it costs to run. Something like imgur especially would cost absurd amounts of money to run. If it can’t be monetised then it will die. The same thing will happen to any competitors that pop up claiming to be better - it’s just the nature of business. Hosting and bandwidth and hardware and employees aren’t free.