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Re: Imgur Acquired by Medialab

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Post by ddevault »

stavros wrote: post #77
ChrisArchitect wrote: post #26

Imgur, great service, lasted this long, amazing. But I always wondered how any of these random image hosts afforded bandwidth (reminds of the other various ones like TwitPic who was saved from being taken offline by Twitter). I mean, I have a gallery of images in there, privately stored, directly linked to here and there around the net, without paying for anything for years. I think at one point I can't even remember…

It seemed crazy to me, and I didn't want to be the product, so I made https://imgz.org/ . Maybe you'll like it.

The meme marketing is funny, but the meme license is less so. Would you consider using a more well-known and established license? The Parity license looks like Open Source/Free Software, but it also looks very vague and difficult to interpret, and has not been evaluated by the OSI or FSF, which makes it needlessly difficult to comply with, or to do things like make packages or contributions or derivative works. If you want copyleft, consider the GPL family, or MPL?

Re: Imgur Acquired by Medialab

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Post by wheybags »

cobertos wrote: post #188
robertoandred wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah but who goes to the front page of imgur?

I used to in college. Extremely bad habit, was easy to spend 4+ hours there just hitting the right arrow.

Same. I stopped when I realised it was passively teaching me celebrity gossip, which I never wanted to know.

Re: Imgur Acquired by Medialab

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Post by yread »

stavros wrote: post #77
ChrisArchitect wrote: post #26

Imgur, great service, lasted this long, amazing. But I always wondered how any of these random image hosts afforded bandwidth (reminds of the other various ones like TwitPic who was saved from being taken offline by Twitter). I mean, I have a gallery of images in there, privately stored, directly linked to here and there around the net, without paying for anything for years. I think at one point I can't even remember…

It seemed crazy to me, and I didn't want to be the product, so I made https://imgz.org/ . Maybe you'll like it.

We feel personally attacked at our startup by some of the stuff you wrote on your blog especially the thing about writing in plural

Re: Imgur Acquired by Medialab

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Post by Blikkentrekker »

robertoandred wrote: post #106
BiteCode_dev wrote: post #62

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My guess is PR. Regularly, on imgur, you see a pic in interest for a celebrity, a rich person, a movie. It looks organic, but if you look closely, there are plenty of weird things about it. Then it disappears as suddenly as it arrived. I believe that they sell the front page to PR firms that need to promote something in a way the people think themself came up with the hype. It's probably the same for a lot of communi…

Yeah but who goes to the front page of imgur?

I only now learned that it has such a thing and decided to see it, and I am very confused by the lack of advertisement on it indeed.

Re: Imgur Acquired by Medialab

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Post by stavros »

no_wizard wrote: post #232
stavros wrote: post #122

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The trick is to actually not care about whether people buy your stuff! Hard to pull off when you're trying to make money, but easy for me.

But in all seriousness, so you have an actual privacy policy and such? I like the pricing and do have images I need to host!

No, unfortunately not. I can give you an informal one, that I will not sell/give away/etc your data, won't track you, etc. I also only use CloudFlare, so your data only goes through them.

Re: Imgur Acquired by Medialab

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Post by nicbou »

eryu wrote: post #220
tyrfing wrote: post #178

Interesting company. It was created in 2018 [1], and the CEO is Michael Heyward, who was a co-founder of Whisper. Some interesting shuffling happened with Whisper [2] and it's now owned by MediaLab. Since then they have acquired a number of other properties, the general idea seems to buy declining brands for cheap and extract as much value as possible on mobile. [3] There is no public information on their funding. 1.…

The whisper founders threatened to default on the debt they raised from SVB, then used inside money to buy it at cents on the dollar. because debt is senior to equity, they then wiped out the equity raised and kicked sequoia, shasta, and lightspeed off the board. then raised PE to fund a series of purchases of apps such as kik, and a lot of android apps with churned users with always-on location permissions turned on…

Buying Kik alone is a really shady move. By now it's famous for being a porn exchange with no enforcement. Darknet Diaries has a long episode about it. I now remember where I heard from Medialab before.

Re: Imgur Acquired by Medialab

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Post by stavros »

ddevault wrote: post #251
stavros wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It seemed crazy to me, and I didn't want to be the product, so I made https://imgz.org/ . Maybe you'll like it.

The meme marketing is funny, but the meme license is less so. Would you consider using a more well-known and established license? The Parity license looks like Open Source/Free Software, but it also looks very vague and difficult to interpret, and has not been evaluated by the OSI or FSF, which makes it needlessly difficult to comply with, or to do things like make packages or contributions or derivative works. If yo…

I didn't mean it as a meme license, but I might change it to something like the GPL 3 or AGPL, thanks!

Re: Imgur Acquired by Medialab

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Post by ddevault »

stavros wrote: post #257
ddevault wrote: post #251

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The meme marketing is funny, but the meme license is less so. Would you consider using a more well-known and established license? The Parity license looks like Open Source/Free Software, but it also looks very vague and difficult to interpret, and has not been evaluated by the OSI or FSF, which makes it needlessly difficult to comply with, or to do things like make packages or contributions or derivative works. If yo…

I didn't mean it as a meme license, but I might change it to something like the GPL 3 or AGPL, thanks!

Cheers!

Re: Imgur Acquired by Medialab

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Post by [deleted] »

toyg wrote: post #154
jdorfman wrote: post #55

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> Kik? The teen messaging app from like 2010 that no one uses anymore? I use to think the same thing, until I listened to this episode of Darknet Diaries: https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/93/

After reading this, it's clear everybody knows (multiple legal challenges, involvement by MS...) and nobody with actual power wants to crack down on it. Safe haven or not, when authorities want to destroy a sketchy business, they have a number of weapons at their disposal. To me, it all suggests Kik (and by extension, possibly, Medialab) might well be some sort of law-enforcement front at this point.

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