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  • F!5H@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    I used Gfycat (before uploads broke) all the time mainly for its silent autoplay in Discord to share gaming clips with my friends. Any alternatives? Or am I now just slapping my vids straight into Discord?

    • cley_faye@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Not sure what would prevent you to do that, but you can post video in discord that plays inline.

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      1 year ago

      Not sure what would prevent you to do that, but you can post video in discord that plays inline.

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        1 year ago

        imgur is also in a downward spiral of entshittification though. No uploading without an account, and all old images uploaded by people with no accounts are going to get deleted.

        They want to be a social media site now, not an image hosting site.

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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.

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            1 year ago

            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.