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After September 1, 2023, all Gfycat content and data will be deleted (gfycat.com)

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From their website: The Gfycat service is being discontinued. Please save or delete your Gfycat content by visiting https://www.gfycat.com and logging in to your account. After September 1, 2023, all Gfycat content and data will be deleted from gfycat.com.

This has been a strange year.

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[-] Flicsmo@rammy.site 165 points 1 year ago

This certainly has been a strange year. The reckoning for these big unprofitable sites was inevitable in retrospect, but it's wild how much is happening all at once.

[-] curryandbeans@lemmy.world 59 points 1 year ago

Web 2.0 was a house of cards all this time I suppose

[-] fongaboo@lemmy.fmhy.ml 47 points 1 year ago

As a Web 1.0 survivor, I can tell you it's always been a house of cards. They keep trying to shoehorn a circular, communal, socialist invention (the Internet itself) into a square, capitalist hole. And it doesn't work.

Aron Swartz knew that, and maybe even Tom from MySpace. He knew when to get out and leave someone else holding the bag.