The front page of the image hosting website is full of John Oliver giving the owner the middle finger.
Archived version: https://archive.is/20250828134656/https://www.404media.co/imgurs-community-is-in-full-revolt-against-its-owner/
The front page of the image hosting website is full of John Oliver giving the owner the middle finger.
Archived version: https://archive.is/20250828134656/https://www.404media.co/imgurs-community-is-in-full-revolt-against-its-owner/
The most effective protests against your capitalist overlords are to strike or boycott.
Everything else is just begging.
Yeah, none of this hurts their bottom line. Calling it a “revolt” is absurd.
Same. Imgur had a bad reputation for years but I didn’t know why. 404 explains that it has the same fate as reddit. Nothing will change then. Users will complain a lot but not move to another site.
To keep with the reddit comparison, there were a lot of bad events that should have triggered a massive migration, but it didn’t happen. People stayed on reddit and they still complain without doing anything about it.
But imagine having to choose a server from which to access the fediverse! This is just too complicated!
Tbf that’s a big deal for Mastodon aka Fediverse, not so much on the Threadiverse with K/Mbin, Lemmy, or PieFed.
And the tools that exist to help are laughably bad - the last time I tried the auto-selector website it chose for me hexbear.net, and I noticed Lemmy.ml was prominently displayed up high in their listing (surely the Windows-using centrists and conservatives on Reddit will have no problems joining that extremist leftist instance of FOSS enthusiasts… r-r-right?!).
I had to make the life-threatening choice between Gmail, Hotmail, and Proton for my email. I almost died!
I don’t think the “choosing a server” thing has been a serious roadblock for years, if it ever was. Most people just pick The Big One anyway. If they knew enough to care about distributing users properly among instances, they probably wouldn’t be intimidated by picking