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After being purchased by Snapchat, it appears that gfycat has been abandoned.

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

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[-] comicallycluttered@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Man, the last few months have been wack.

Reddit kills third party apps (and drives away moderators, making some subs ridiculously terrible permanently, eg. /r/IAMA, in case no one's up to speed on that drama), Imgur bans NSFW content and deletes everything not uploaded by registered users, Twitter just goes fucking crazy (although that can really be attributed to one idiot), RARBG dies, Google ~~kills~~ sells off their domains to SquareSpace, Gfycat is just getting rid of everything, Netflix kills password sharing and plays a major part in holding back negotiations with the WGA, Zaslav kills HBO Max and turns it into reality TV central, Red Hat pulls a Canonical, Mastodon is in a potentially precarious situation with Meta...

That's just off the top of my head. There's probably a bunch more I'm forgetting.

2023 is fucking wild. Might as well get ready for the next "We Didn't Start The Fire" cover. There'll probably be enough crazy tech/social media shit for every verse before the end of the year.

[-] VerbTheNoun95@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Funny enough, a new version of We Didn’t Start the Fire came out last week.

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