(2018-11-04) Marks How Do We Replace Flickr

Kevin Marks: How do we replace Flickr? #Indieweb #Yesvember Flickr was intentionally built as a community

Don MacAskill, Smugmug CEO and new owner of Flickr, wants to retain this:

However, he also wants to change things, in particular he wants to undo Yahoo's 'Free TB of storage' model:

I'd like to suggest a more subtle heuristic. If images are public, and tagged, and especially if they are creative commons, Flickr should retain them to preserve this archive

Meanwhile, over in the fediverse, pixelfed is just getting started.