Their whole front page has dozens of these same images. And I'm not much of a imgur user to dig around.

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[–] 41 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Pixelfed, in my head, is more like Flickr or Instagram.

Imgur is just a meme picture site.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Used to be just an image upload site for Reddit mainly . But then enshittyfication happened as usual

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    Enshittification is always the end of most online platforms that aren't federated because hosting costs money. Maintaining costs people. Which is more money. Especially as you scale out with popularity.

    First step is ADs. But ad blockers prevent that revenue stream.

    Second is monetization. (Reddit Gold or some premium BS)

    Third is selling out.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    There isn't a guarantee that federation protects against enshitification. Email has effectively been captured by a few providers.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    people always say this but at worst "a few" means like 50, which is a damn fucking sight better than every other platform which is ONE provider

    and you can use other providers or even run your own email setup, you'll just run into problems, which is again a damn fucking sight better than other platforms where the option doesn't even exist at all.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    When I first got to Lemmy i always thought a fediverse imgur would be neat. As the other comment said, imgur has been going down this path for a while, so i ended up leaving quite a while ago and never pursued the idea. Plus I'm not really knowledgeable enough to do it myself.

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  • I left Imgur when I left Reddit, since the only thing I ever used it for was hosting things to post on Reddit. Funny, I must have gotten spoiled to Lemmy instances self-hosting images, because I forgot Imgur even existed until I saw this post today.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    i guess there is pixelfed. but i would compare it more to instagram. many lemmy instances allow uploading pictures directly, so you dont necessarily need a separate host.

    but where i see the biggest caveat, is costs. cloud storage is not cheap and pictures are extremely large compared to text. therefore some lemmy instances only keep uploaded pics for a certain amount of time.

    I dont know whether imgur is keeping pictures for ever or not... so i am not sure if it federated imgur would solve the 'amnesia issue' of some lemmy instances.

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