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This magazine is dedicated to discussions on the federated social networking ecosystem, which includes decentralized and open-source social media platforms. Whether you are a user, developer, or simply interested in the concept of decentralized social media, this is the place for you. Here you can share your knowledge, ask questions, and engage in discussions on topics such as the benefits and challenges of decentralized social media, new and existing federated platforms, and more. From the latest developments and trends to ethical considerations and the future of federated social media, this category covers a wide range of topics related to the Fediverse.

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Imgur links suck (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by atomicpoet@kbin.social to c/fediverse@kbin.social

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Most Fediverse software supports image uploads, so there's no reason to use Imgur for image hosting. Hell, even on my small single-user server (atomicpoet.org), image hosting is easy peasy. Not only is Imgur not needed, they're an annoyance for those of us who are used to seeing images natively on the Fediverse.

I know habits are hard to break, but just remember: this isn't Reddit 🙂

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[–] iliketrains@kbin.social 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

imgur has more recently blocked access from numerous VPS, VPN and Tor.

[–] vimb@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wait, why? What's the incentive?

[–] Saganastic@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Collect more user data and sell it for $$$ probably.

[–] dismalnow@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

That and to prevent megaleeching by scraping. It's easier and cheaper to purchase curated lists of IPs than it is to bootstrap a tool to ban them based upon bandwidth.

[–] Brustadnrift@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reduce attack surface/abuse. There are plenty of services that maintains lists of “bad IPs” or “VPN IPs”. You can subscribe to them and get the list and block it. Most bots, spammers, attackers etc always run behind some type of VPN or Tor depending on what you’re doing and how much you’re trying to hide your trail.

Most services don’t go out of their way to block VPN IPs because it’s just a support headache/nightmare. Some services like Netflix are legally obligated to block well know VPN IPs

[–] Aesthesiaphilia@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

There are plenty of services that maintains lists of “bad IPs” or “VPN IPs”.

Yeah and they're dicks for doing so.

VPNs are a very basic privacy tool, everyone should be using a VPN at all times.

[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Ah, that would explain why I kept getting errors viewing images on Reddit with Safari on Mac (which uses a VPN-like privacy system