People in the UK should vote for non-insane representatives, that would be more helpful

Imgur has been shitty for years at this point. They kept fucking with the UI when all I wanted to do was upload images and share the link. They should have stayed in their lane, not try to reinvent their platform as social media. Then their wholesale blocking of VPN traffic? Tired of that nonsense. I use imgbb now.

"both the ICO and Ofcom - the media regulator enforcing the Online Safety Act - said Imgur suspending access for UK users had been its own "commercial decision"

They're just trying to avoid getting fined by the UK.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gzxv5gy3qo

Not really a shit post.

Sucks for the UK.

Works fine with a VPN for me.

This doesn’t seem like it’s Imgur’s fault for trying to avoid prison. Perhaps more fire is needed in your local MP’s home?

should be: 451 Unavailable For Legal Reasons

so what you say is, we have a means to post things in such a way the british can’t see them… 🧐 /j

Yeah I've had this issue when using Mullvad. Definitely a VPN specific issue.

If anyone wants to selfhost their own replacement I just spun up picsur a couple months ago and highly recommend it. Dead simple and lightweight.

That sounds like a you problem, sorry.

I feel like making some memes mocking the UK and posting them there now.

I've been wondering about this for a while, what do people recommend for FOSS imgur alternatives (or just simple image hosting)? 🤔

(Of course the UK should just allow free access to information, but I would still prefer to be able to use something FOSS anyway)

Fucking hell. As someone in the UK who used Imgur, this sucks. Like fuck sake, I'm being fucked by the OSA and the reaction to the OSA.

As a brazilian, I've been having all sorts of issues with media being geolocked on Lemmy. I feel like the platform is becoming increasingly hostile to me.

Also happens to me, even if i'm not in the UK. I am on Iliad(italy) btw.

It's been dying for a long time, the vpn blocking started ages ago and the UK block entirely was recent as they're facing massive fines in the UK... nothing to do with the online safety act that recently came into effect... but due to an ongoing investigation over imgurs failure to do basic age checks at all... and blocking the UK is tantamount to them throwing their toys out of the pram and going LALALALALALALA we can't hear you now. It won't affect the investigations and fines over the years of failings prior to that.

After the last wave of protests over the shitty new owners and their repeated firings of staff and the degredation of the service... they went on a mass banning and censorship spree and further alienated the users. I can't imagine there are that many left there now.

Not worth the effort trying to get around it... there are alternatives that are actually better.

I also see this and I’m not in the UK.

I noticed with some basic testing with VPNs that a PC running Linux and a VPN is fairly obscured with no DNS or IP leaks. But when doing the same with an android phone, even with a good VPN, the browser still passes unique identifiers of the phone.

So I'm thinking the ones who say they can still use imgur are probably accessing it via a PC and not a phone.