I used Imgur for a few years and actively enjoyed the community there, but I left when they started restricting things beyond my comfort level. Even the things I saved started disappearing, which made me lose interest.
After that I went to reddit, which had less community but more content. The third party apps were also fantastic until that too was restricted.
Now I’m on Lemmy with the understanding that any instance could become more restrictive at any time, but instead of losing an entire platform I may just need to change instance or create my own. I like that a hell of a lot more.
Now I’m on Lemmy with the understanding that any instance could become more restrictive at any time, but instead of losing an entire platform I may just need to change instance or create my own. I like that a hell of a lot more.
For this to work, there need to be many instances instead of one big centralized instance though. Therefore I suggest you move to some smaller instance - lemmy.world got pretty big. That’s what I am doing here too, trying to grow the news community at another instance - this way if lemmy.world’s admin one day changes their mind and starts censoring the content beyond your comfort level, you can just block their instance and not be left out with an empty space
I used Imgur for a few years and actively enjoyed the community there, but I left when they started restricting things beyond my comfort level. Even the things I saved started disappearing, which made me lose interest.
After that I went to reddit, which had less community but more content. The third party apps were also fantastic until that too was restricted.
Now I’m on Lemmy with the understanding that any instance could become more restrictive at any time, but instead of losing an entire platform I may just need to change instance or create my own. I like that a hell of a lot more.
For this to work, there need to be many instances instead of one big centralized instance though. Therefore I suggest you move to some smaller instance - lemmy.world got pretty big. That’s what I am doing here too, trying to grow the news community at another instance - this way if lemmy.world’s admin one day changes their mind and starts censoring the content beyond your comfort level, you can just block their instance and not be left out with an empty space