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Amy Hoy@Emilynussbaum gotta go rogue
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flickr is the best social software of all time
Clive ThompsonFlickr is kind of astounding, right?
Founded in 2004, and still chuggin' along ...
... and still sort of slightly relevant and slightly used
What else of that vintage? Not really Blogger; apart from a handful of long-maintained blogs, it hasn't seen much use since before Obama was president
Twitter, Facebook, etc. all came years after Flickr
It's the trilobite of social media
Derek Powazek 🐐@clive @amy @Emilynussbaum Tumblr is of a similar vintage, and also went through the Yahoo digestive tract.
It indeed did!
An intertube service must be durable indeed to withstand Yahoo's stomach acids
ursamajor@clive @fraying @amy @Emilynussbaum but speaking of properties Yahoo digested, I will always, always rue the day Yahoo announced they would be sunsetting del.icio.us, and it got sold to a couple of entrepreneurs who didn’t recognize its value in its existing form, and utterly destroyed it. What a waste.
@ursamajor @fraying @amy @Emilynussbaum
Yeah, that was really depressing
curiouskiwi@fraying @clive @amy @Emilynussbaum
I very rarely upload to flickr these days (maybe a handful in the last week just because, but a year before that). But I visit the site at least once a week to find my old photos and I love how it's so easy to do that. I should visit more. I see that many of my old flickr friends are still there!
@curiouskiwi @fraying @amy @Emilynussbaum
I use Creative Commons flickr photos in my blog posts all the time! It's a massive well of generously donated stuff
@fraying @clive @amy @Emilynussbaum if I could bring back one long deprecated Flickr feature, it’d be the way you could leave footnotes all over a picture. Easy to miss if you just scrolled by, but one serendipitous tap and you were drawn deeper into the story of that photo. We lost so much context when that feature went away, though I don’t remember if it was before or after the Yahoo! acquisition.
@fraying @clive @amy @Emilynussbaum and Tumblr! The second life it’s had, partly because even those of us who don’t use it regularly anymore but used to keep getting reminded of it by screenshots of Tumblr posts in FB meme groups, go to check on these threads we remembered, and discover that the story has grown since the last time it went around. I’m intrigued that they’re adding support for ActivityPub.
@ursamajor @fraying @amy @Emilynussbaum
Right -- I forgot all about that!
When did they get rid of that?