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You prefer walls of text, with nothing else?
Invert the scenario: imagine a blog post with photos by the author, but text pasted in from Wikipedia just to space the photos out a bit. It's essentially the same thing.
Removing my user, thanks for all the fish.
This reminds me of 500px. I used to be a huge fan of 500px. It was the most beautiful photography site on the internet, designed with attention to every tiny detail. It allowed you to share your photos under a CC license, presented them beautifully and had fantastic curated feeds with photos by fantastic photographers. In 2018 they were acquired by an investor company and partnered exclusively with Getty. As a contri…
pixelfed.org is another great platform - and it's powered by ActivityPub, so you can host your own and federate it with others.
I was wondering what Unsplash's business model was, and I stumbled onto [1]: > Nor is it going to slap banner ads on every page of its website. Yes, it’s unveiling a digital advertising business, but Unsplash is taking a specific approach — working with companies to create branded photos, which will then appear on desirable searches. > Square, for example, could upload photos of the Square Register, which will then s…
I'm more afraid of how they'll modify their existing products to manipulate users into paying for "Premium" Getty stock photos over the free Unsplash ones :/
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Reading through the press release, this really stood out: > In 2016, we first met the Getty Images team. We weren’t sure they would see the world the same way we did given their business was largely built on licensing. Over years of conversations, however, we learned about the level of respect they had for the Unsplash community and the rights of creators to choose how and where their imagery is made available. While…
> the rights of creators to choose how and where their imagery is made available I didn't know that there's any way to control where the images show up. Isn't it just a free-for-all on Unsplash?
I'm not sure why I thought of them right then. I suppose the connection was forming in my mind while I was reading the preceding sentences. Going to elsevier.com I see this though:
"How Elsevier supports Open Access"
We're not bad, we're just misunderstood!
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https://www.pexels.com/ is another similar site, owned by Canva which seems to have kept its quality through the years.
Someone mentioned yet another alternative which I have used previously but had completely forgotten https://pixabay.com
Because unsplash actually made my desktop backgrounds look good.
Well, I'm deleting my stuff from there.
Interesting, I wonder how many other photographers will delete their photos. I'm curious, can you and will you be uploading them elsewhere?
However, deleting your photos does not prevent other people from using them in the future.
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For example, I honestly believe the Oculus founder believed the promises that you wouldn't ever need to use a FB account to use an Oculus, just given his public comments.
You can't use Oculus products now without a Facebook account?
[1] https://www.oculus.com/blog/a-single-way-to-log-into-oculus-...
Well, I'm deleting my stuff from there.