Popular animated gifs hosting service gfycat.com is shutting down on September 1, 2023 and all hosted content will no longer be accessible at that point.
Wow I love having large internet services that are used widely by the public be owned by inscrutable private companies that can trade them around between each other and randomly shut them down at their own whims, leaving a gigantic wreck of dead links in their wake
In the US we'll probably end up with these sites being deemed too-big-to-fail and then Congress will step in to hand them all a bunch of money to keep things going
Wow I love having large internet services that are used widely by the public be owned by inscrutable private companies that can trade them around between each other and randomly shut them down at their own whims, leaving a gigantic wreck of dead links in their wake
So many forums destroyed by dead picture hosting websites.
We really need an international free hosting service for images and videos. It shouldn’t be left to private companies that can go under.
Holy shit. A nationalised image hosting service would rock.
Video would be harder to figure out with the costs.
Simple, billionaires pay for it, or they're put in the billionaire bathysphere for a one way trip to the abyssal plain.
Make it out of carbon fiber and say it's going to explore around the Titanic, and they'll climb in there themselves!
We’re puttin’ ya in the contraption
In the US we'll probably end up with these sites being deemed too-big-to-fail and then Congress will step in to hand them all a bunch of money to keep things going
The congressional committee to investigate volume of furry porn hosted on the public image repository would be highly entertaining
images are easy just put them on hexbear.net
videos are harder but their is peertube.
This website will surely never die
it's doing better than some of the alternatives rn. obviously not scalable but wcyd
Is Tinypic still extant?
Motherfucker
The really funny part is that Photobucket self-destructed by pulling "fleece the users" shenanigans too.
don't worry, we still have the internet archive to make sure we can still see the stuff that people worked hard on and was lost to the ether!
surely nothing bad will happen to it either lmao