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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?
Not sure what would prevent you to do that, but you can post video in discord that plays inline.
https://catbox.moe runs on donations and shares the original file without recompressing.
Not sure what would prevent you to do that, but you can post video in discord that plays inline.
Imgur, Streamable
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.
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.
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.
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.