The front page of the image hosting website is full of John Oliver giving the owner the middle finger.
  • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.socialEnglish
    854·
    4 days ago

    The most effective protests against your capitalist overlords are to strike or boycott.

    Everything else is just begging.

    • 6nk06@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      411·
      4 days ago

      Same. Imgur had a bad reputation for years but I didn’t know why. 404 explains that it has the same fate as reddit. Nothing will change then. Users will complain a lot but not move to another site.

      To keep with the reddit comparison, there were a lot of bad events that should have triggered a massive migration, but it didn’t happen. People stayed on reddit and they still complain without doing anything about it.

      • Saleh@feddit.orgEnglish
        251·
        4 days ago

        But imagine having to choose a server from which to access the fediverse! This is just too complicated!

        • 6nk06@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          152·
          4 days ago

          I had to make the life-threatening choice between Gmail, Hotmail, and Proton for my email. I almost died!

        • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
          51·
          3 days ago

          Tbf that’s a big deal for Mastodon aka Fediverse, not so much on the Threadiverse with K/Mbin, Lemmy, or PieFed.

          And the tools that exist to help are laughably bad - the last time I tried the auto-selector website it chose for me hexbear.net, and I noticed Lemmy.ml was prominently displayed up high in their listing (surely the Windows-using centrists and conservatives on Reddit will have no problems joining that extremist leftist instance of FOSS enthusiasts… r-r-right?!).

        • BremboTheFourth@piefed.caEnglish
          5·
          4 days ago

          I don’t think the “choosing a server” thing has been a serious roadblock for years, if it ever was. Most people just pick The Big One anyway. If they knew enough to care about distributing users properly among instances, they probably wouldn’t be intimidated by picking

    • MotoAsh@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      3 days ago

      Ehh… There are more extreme things, but then that starts being something other than “protest”.

      At least these people are wasting imgur resources and removing value by cluttering up the site. If they’d keep it up and actually battle the shitlords, it’d be better than a bitchboi boycott.

      • leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        3·
        3 days ago

        There are more extreme things, but then that starts being something other than “protest”.

        Eh, watch some French protests, especially ones involving French farmers. Spraying manure into government buildings is one of the classics.

        As long as you don’t kill anybody (or any pets or livestock), it’s still just a protest.

        (And Medialab AI doesn’t seem to have any human employees left, only executives and marketing drones, so no one would get hurt if it got burned down, on the contrary, it’d be a net benefit for humanity).

    • quick_snail@feddit.nlEnglish
      6·
      3 days ago

      I think arson works very effectively, historically

      Or other forms of asset destruction