Imgur Users Are Protesting En Masse Against the Website's Owner, Medialab AI

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jsheard

4 months ago

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What happened recently to bring this on? MediaLab acquired Imgur years ago.

imglorp

4 months ago

Rapid onset enshittification by new owner who is hostile/oblivious to the community. Background info here: https://imgur.com/gallery/imgur-is-near-dead-suggestion-poss...

    * Imgur's US mods were all laid off
    * Imgur official discord server is gone
    * Basic site maintenance is lagging (notifications have been broken for days)
    * Ads are being ramped up, including NSFW ones

idiomat9000

4 months ago

Dead internet. But if nobody is on the web. Why should its companies still be worth something ?

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