We actively encourage and enable enshittification when we stick with a big dominant player like imgur when they conspicuously start enshittification by deleting older content that doesn’t have a paid subscription and geoblocking countries that fine them for selling user area including users marked as age band children to advertisers. A simple filter would have done the trick. Geoblocking is actually harder to implement.
Other image host platforms exist and if we don’t jump ship when the larger ones enshittify, we’ll be left with no free image hosts and you’ll end up on your instance anyway.
At this point it’s not any worse or harder to just link to the original image, instead of rehosting on a corporation actively punishing its users for not having a paid subscriptions and punishing whole countries for sayng they shouldn’t sell the browsing habits of children to advertisers and other interested parties.
The way I see it, lemmy is filled with parasites, people who do not offer any monetary incentive to their participation in a for-profit website. ad blocking, anonymization, we are a net negative for Imgur. I can certainly understand choosing image hosts that can reach more lemmy users, but Imgur would almost certainly be happier if we moved elsewhere
We actively encourage and enable enshittification when we stick with a big dominant player like imgur when they conspicuously start enshittification by deleting older content that doesn’t have a paid subscription and geoblocking countries that fine them for selling user area including users marked as age band children to advertisers. A simple filter would have done the trick. Geoblocking is actually harder to implement.
Other image host platforms exist and if we don’t jump ship when the larger ones enshittify, we’ll be left with no free image hosts and you’ll end up on your instance anyway.
At this point it’s not any worse or harder to just link to the original image, instead of rehosting on a corporation actively punishing its users for not having a paid subscriptions and punishing whole countries for sayng they shouldn’t sell the browsing habits of children to advertisers and other interested parties.
The way I see it, lemmy is filled with parasites, people who do not offer any monetary incentive to their participation in a for-profit website. ad blocking, anonymization, we are a net negative for Imgur. I can certainly understand choosing image hosts that can reach more lemmy users, but Imgur would almost certainly be happier if we moved elsewhere