• schmidtster@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The user base is also incredibly toxic. Anytime you post a public picture you get ridiculed for using it to host pictures. Which is the entire point of it yeah? Sure you can also treat it like social media, but without the basis of posting pictures, it wouldn’t exist.

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      1 year ago

      That’s been the case for years now. It’s no longer an image hosting site, it’s an image-based social media site.

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        1 year ago

        All of their marketing says image hosting. Users don’t even understand their own walled garden.

        Imgur now defaults to private images, but those didn’t exist at a time, and when they introduced them they defaulted to public.