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

submitted 1 year ago by zinklog@lemmy.fmhy.ml to c/freemediaheckyeah@lemmy.fmhy.ml

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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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[-] n3m4c@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago

So Reddit now becomes even more useless. Collection of DNS not resolving

[-] meat_popsicle@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Good point, and this raises an interesting topic: is there much value to old data from a link aggregator like Reddit when so many services are no longer available and the old links go nowhere?

Services like Facebook or Twitter are seemingly not as exposed to that type of issue since they’re less reliant on external content.

[-] Perfide@reddthat.com 7 points 1 year ago

Nope, not really. I can't tell you how many times I've found a really old reddit thread with links I wanna check out only for them to be dead. With the services reddit rely on for content going down, this is only going to accelerate.