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This really surprised me: from a paragraph near the end: It's one of the reasons I've stuck around Imgur so long - there's an extremely diverse, and supportive

• fckgw 2y ago
  Imgur is basically an image based social media site now, similar to Instagram but with a more Reddit style lean to it.
  • spartanatreyu 2y ago
    Imgur is Instagram, but selfies are banned (with specific exceptions on xmas day, injury images, or improving health / rehabilitation images). Because of that one single rule, most of the vain attention seekers don't stay on imgur. It's so much better without them.
• doublerabbit 2y ago
  Imgur used to be an image hosting service for reddit for many years. Without reddit, it wouldn't be. However like any image hosting service this wasn't very profitable. So Imgur made itself a social network like Reddit and which then started removing the ability to direct-link to images. The link you clicked than redirected to their own platform of image and comment discussion. Reddit then caught on and shunned Imgur out of Reddit and Imgur expanded to it own social media thing. Some History: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14595212 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14595212
  • Sohcahtoa82 2y ago
    What's ironic is that when Imgur was first created, it branded itself as the image host that doesn't suck. The enshittification was inevitable. Being an image host, especially one that allows direct linking, is expensive. Side note: RIP Gfycat. They join the ranks of ImageShack and Photobucket of causing millions of links on the Internet to suddenly become dead. Imgur did a purge of porn, which now means a whole bunch of images on the porn subreddits are now dead.