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After September 1, 2023, all Gfycat content and data will be deleted from gfycat.com (gfycat.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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After being purchased by Snapchat, it appears that gfycat has been abandoned.

The Gfycat service is being discontinued. Please save or delete your Gfycat content by visiting https://www.gfycat.com and logging in to your account. After September 1, 2023, all Gfycat content and data will be deleted from gfycat.com

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Man, the last few months have been wack.

Reddit kills third party apps (and drives away moderators, making some subs ridiculously terrible permanently, eg. /r/IAMA, in case no one's up to speed on that drama), Imgur bans NSFW content and deletes everything not uploaded by registered users, Twitter just goes fucking crazy (although that can really be attributed to one idiot), RARBG dies, Google ~~kills~~ sells off their domains to SquareSpace, Gfycat is just getting rid of everything, Netflix kills password sharing and plays a major part in holding back negotiations with the WGA, Zaslav kills HBO Max and turns it into reality TV central, Red Hat pulls a Canonical, Mastodon is in a potentially precarious situation with Meta...

That's just off the top of my head. There's probably a bunch more I'm forgetting.

2023 is fucking wild. Might as well get ready for the next "We Didn't Start The Fire" cover. There'll probably be enough crazy tech/social media shit for every verse before the end of the year.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Peak eshittification... or are we at peak? Also, TikTok being threatened with bans in some areas. Bright side: Fediverse springing and thriving in the wake of eshittification.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow, sad to see this much history go. It's tough running an image hosting service.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Frankly I'm surprised Imgur has made it this long. I suppose it's because they morphed into a community in and of itself.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I remember when imgur came out when the previous image hosting companies started getting greedy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

oh god damnit Can we get an open source alternative to gfycat and tenor? We can build in some slash commands everywhere for it.

Tenor has become so inundated with shitty ~~gifs~~ ads for shitty TV shows that it's near unusable.

$prompt> boromir this is a gift

response> (some gen Y in a shitty netflix show laughing)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The infrastructure costs money. It's gotta come from somewhere.

I'd certainly welcome an Activitypub version.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I guess all these free services had to implode one day, I just didn't think they'd all choose the same day...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Many of these have the same underlying external cause of money no longer being free so they can't keep the merry-go-round going for their debt and/or their investors are no longer content to just pour more money into the engine.