Comment on Discussion Thread 🧹Friday 29 August 2025
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Just warning you all that Imgur front page is full of NSFW and boobs as a protest, in case you want to specifically avoid that kind of thing.
It used to be one of my favourite places, but I deleted my account about a week ago. The newish mob that own it turfed out all the old staff and mods and are now “AI first”. As a consequence stuffs breaking left right and centre and all the accounts that made it a community have skadaddelled it’s gone fully rogue this week but I understand.
I liked the interwebs when it was for cute (non AI and not drugged for ease) animals and fun weirdos.
Yeah the breakdown of notifications was the last straw for a lot of people. It’s bad enough that the videos would load, half play and then freeze lol, but I was putting up with that because I loved some of the users. Now they aren’t taking uploads from Ukraine. A few have set up discords but I hate the discord format, it’s like 100 people talking at once.
What are they protesting?
Imgur was bought by a company called Medialab ai, who sacked all the mods and tech support staff and pumped the site with ads. Some classic and old Imgurians accounts were banned. Posts were arbitrarily removed (ai mods now). Secret Santa was abolished. All NSFW uploads were removed by Medialab to make it more attractive to advertisers. They aren’t accepting uploads from accounts which are Ukrainian. Some Imgurians are rebelling against the enshittification, others are just leaving and looking for similar sites elsewhere. There isn’t anything quite like Imgur tho.
got bought by a new company who just wanted the image repo for AI training and are consequently banning and firing everyone and ploughing it into the ground.
didn’t they used to be owned by Reddit as a free safe image storage site for redditors?
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Catfish@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Ha! I quit years ago when they banned NSFW. Was the only use I had for it.