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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.
When has it been not grotesque? It's just that “American” “norms” are actually starting to “progress” to the mean.
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That's your view, but actually most of the world doesn't share it. India, china and the middle east aren't found of sexual content.
Their moralistic and/or overly religious governments aren't fond of it. The vast majority of young people under 30 likely don't give a shit.
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> Every platform now has its own image hosting The big ones do. There is stil the long tail of forums and legacy chat platforms that don't do hosting or have extreme limits. That is what will be most affected by this change.
Being an image hotlinking service for legacy forums and IRC is not a viable long term business.
I bet an enormous amount, maybe 99%, of imgur content is stuff that users only meant to share once and wouldn't care if it were deleted. But the other 1% is of tremendous value -- even if an image gets no hits in years, that's no guarantee it's really useless (e.g. an instruction manual for an obscure piece of hardware or software). And it's hard to know which is which.
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It wasn't stupid. It's quite likely that he would have been stuck down in the noise like so many other high quality Reddit posters except that he realized early on that just a handful of early upvotes makes all of the difference to Reddit's algorithm. The Reddit algorithm is seemingly designed to snowball content, so if you want to rake in the worthless karma reliably you need alts.
I’m not so sure. Many other "household names" on askscience seem to be highly upvoted, apparently without shenanigans (but who knows?!) Even I have several 1000+ karma answers there, and many more 100+ ones and I’m a nobody. There’s also simply not that much competition on askscience! If you’re consistently able to write good, a-few-paragraph answers to questions in a particular field, and are also available for disc…
ArchiveTeam are in early discussions about how to save all that stuff to archive.org. https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Imgur
This is a fantastic time to be alive and prepared to start the third generation of internet companies. You've got Google in a panic against OpenAI, Meta is imploding, Twitter is imploding, Reddit can't help but drive users away, and now least of all Imgur also deciding to follow them off the cliff; I genuinely feel blessed to watch these companies tear themselves apart. Like in all things; we, the data hoarders, the…
With the same business model, you'll get the same problem.
What's new on this front? >$2/mo subscriptions and advertising? Meh.
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It was cynical from the beginning: the author made the same post on Digg also, it just didn't take off there.
This is an often repeated myth, from the creator: >"Yes I did" [create it for Reddit] There's some conspiracy theory going around that I actually created it for Digg. So, here's what happened. I posted it on Reddit, Digg, and a couple forums that I frequent at the same time. The server actually ended up going down and the Reddit post got spammed with "It doesn't work!!". So, I deleted the thread, corrected the proble…