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[–] Uniquitous@lemmy.one 10 points 1 year ago

The Summer of enshittification continues apace.

[–] sagacity@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The money ran out, now we have to face cold hard decisions regarding what parts of the internet we are wiling to pay for.

[–] prole@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

It's better than ads

[–] azureeight@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am going to not be able to find obscure gifs i remember from the 2000's 😩

[–] AndrewZabar@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So what you’re saying is nothing important is being lost.

[–] azureeight@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I mean, if you don't convey emotions to friend via gifs I don't know what to tell ya!

[–] Pepper@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm gonna take a wild guess and say the reason why gfycat integrated into basically everything was because they launched themselves at the tech giants and gave everything for basically nothing.

I thought it was pretty suss that they suddenly showed up on every platform.

[–] EvilColeslaw@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

They were purchased by Snapchat last year. So this is probably Snapchat seeing it as only a cost center with no return. Which tbh, it probably is.

[–] skycat@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I'm glad one of GIF platforms went down. GIF format is disgusting anyway. APNG is superior in every way and should replace ugly GIF garbage format.

[–] hybridhavoc@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I can't say I knew anything about how they operated to begin with. How did they pay their bills?

[–] HumbleHobo@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Where is DataHoarders representation here on Lemmy?? Anyone know?

[–] AccountForStuff@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

!datahoarder@lemmy.ml I believe