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Is it that much different than Redditors rehosting images on Reddit/Imgur? I find the functional design of the site terrible but there's tons of popular sites t

• adventured 7y ago
  At least in the case of Reddit it's quite different. The primary value by a huge margin on Reddit is the text content, the comment / discussion section in each thread. Pinterest is basically entirely built around the rehosted images they pull in. It's by far and away the primary value on the platform. A distant second is the typically small amount of associated text with a given post.
• dylz 7y ago
  Imgur is (IMO) turning into the same thing. Banning direct links, forcefully redirecting direct linked images to their ad packed pages of mostly stolen content.
  • maps7 7y ago
    Being so popular and serving images directly seems like a path to losing money
• hodder 7y ago
  Not really much different, but Imgur doesn't dominate Google Image results. Why does Google make the exception for Pinterest?