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I mean, how can you monetize free image hosting?
Not in a greedy capitalist way, but simply paying for servers, developers and coffee. There’s hardly any revenue stream in image hosting. So a pivot to a more social media like site makes sense.
Not sure if folks have realized we’re at the end game of free internet money.
Not sure if folks have realized we’re at the end game of free internet money.
I definitely agree with that, and I really don’t have a good answer on how to create a financially secure image hosting service. But I do think that criticism of how they are approaching it on imgur at the moment is legitimate. In particular their intention of deleting pictures uploaded before the deadline by non-account users. This will only add to the unfathomable amount of link rot going on atm all over the internet.