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Gfycat is shutting down September 1st (gfycat.com)

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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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[-] cerevant@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Free storage. Backblaze is doing just fine.

[-] MaybeItWorks@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago

That is why I called it a loss leader. It is meant to attract people to the ecosystem (hence free), not be the product itself. Of course if you are appropriately creating, pricing, and selling low cost storage as a business model, you will nail it.

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