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I wish imgur would go away entirely. It’s such a toxic community of people. If you are not aligned with their doctrine you get spammed with downvotes and some of the most hateful replies I’ve ever seen. You report it but it stays there.
I do not agree with throwaway accounts. They should go away entirely.
You are being just as "toxic" in your motives.
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They're a huge company, they could easily acquire five of the third party apps, add ads and keep the developers on payroll to maintain the apps. Banning apps that don't show ads of course.
A main reason people use those apps is to avoid ads. Also to avoid the reddit company's decisions about how stuff should work.
So at least for me, using a third-party app is well worth it despite seeing ads.
ArchiveTeam are in early discussions about how to save all that stuff to archive.org. https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Imgur
No bullshit image hosting from https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=stavros : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21627714
no thanks
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It's a problem on mobile, because old-reddit isn't mobile-engineered and there isn't uBlock for iOS. The go-to Reddit app for iOS is Apollo, and they're going to be affected. https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/12ram0f/had_a_fe...
They've also relatively recently killed off i.reddit.com (the .compact view that looks like really old iOS). That was good for mobile when old-reddit was too wide.
I wonder what triggered this - legislation? Their payment processor? The ad network they get their revenue from? In my experience, this kind of change happens much more often for money reasons than for moral reasons. I think Tumblr's TOS change happened because their credit card processor became uncomfortable at them being essentially "in the porn business" - and indeed, seeing how much smaller Tumblr's business was…
The pendulum has clearly started to swing back to sexual repression. Society has started to see sexual freedom and expression as grotesque. Now the only question is how far it'll swing.
I think we live in an increasingly neo-victorian age. It's not just sex. It has become toxic to express a wide range of opinions. For example, the systematic deplatforming of conservatives. (I am a liberal, and my need to state that to be taken seriously is further evidence of all this.)
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TIL about FB Blu-ray disk cold storage. Thanks. https://www.datacenterfrontier.com/cloud/article/11431537/in... The blog post has a link to video from FB itself from 2014 and it has no audio. its not the first old FB video I came across that had no audio. Wonder if the cold storage has something to do with it. https://web.facebook.com/Engineering/videos/1015212866009720...
I wonder if this is actually cost effective. In my data hoarding days (as a consumer, not FB scale), I found burning media an archive tool to be much more costly (and less reliable and more physical space) than simply using multiple hard drives. Now, it could very well be that FB is able to buy burnable media at a much cheaper rate than consumers (i.e. perhaps there is more margin in media that massively bulk purchas…