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As a site, when you adopt a CC0-esque license, what happens is other sites will scrape you but not allow you to scrape in exchange. You start losing out on SEO
by dannyw 6y ago
As a site, when you adopt a CC0-esque license, what happens is other sites will scrape you but not allow you to scrape in exchange.
You start losing out on SEO rankings, and then contributors, and finally content. This also makes it harder to invest in usability features like curation and search (photo search is complicated!).
I’d love to understand any ideas on how to create open CC0 aggregators without the game theory seemingly stacked against you.
(Disclosure: I work on content at Canva. We own Pexels and Pixabay).
- zamalek 6y agoMy earliest exposure to Unsplash was wallpaper apps, and that's certainly the case with many of my friends. I didn't even make the association between Unsplash and stock photography until very recently. My fiance had Giphy installed on her phone when I first met her, which surprised me because I considered Giphy as little more than a Reddit gif host. She uses a lot of reaction gifs in her messages. A search engine isn't the only route to your website. With Unsplash going down the drain, people are going to want wallpapers (on their phones, their browsers, and their desktops). You could also make an image search plugin for PowerPoint and GSlides. Making an aggregator is "easy," that stuff is hard.
- propogandist 6y agoGiphy, incase you’re not aware, is now owned by Facebook..far worse than Getty when it comes to data privacy.