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jherazob@beehaw.org 8 months ago
Bought by Automattic? After they non-consensually took all of Tumblr and hosted Wordpress to train AI? And after their big boss revealed his transphobia? I guess i’ll skip this one
Kissaki@beehaw.org 8 months ago
Gravatar was a great, minimal, independent service. U until they acquired it and integrated it into their WordPress platform and onboarding (trying to get you to become a customer).
jherazob@beehaw.org 8 months ago
Dammit yes! Mandatory shot out to David Revoy and his replacements of it (and the blog post where he mentions how he divested himself of CDNs).
Kissaki@beehaw.org 8 months ago
You link to an avatar generator.
What made Gravatar great beyond that was that you set it up with your email account, and other websites would use your chosen avatar,identified by email address.
jherazob@beehaw.org 8 months ago
Had a longer answer that went away for some reason 😭
Your criticism is fair, but:
Would be good to have a good user-managed way to do the same (well, beyond using an image on your own hosting, i guess)