Selective Amnesia There was a point to this. But I forgot.

Alternative to flickr

First, that move to merge ‘Old Skool’ with Yahoo. Bad as it was, what followed is even worse.
1) Limits on contacts. WTF? I mean to say, who the fuck is Flickr/Yahoo to tell me how many people I can call contacts? And then, the sugar coating. Make Flickr Better, with a TM. Serious case of paranoia, flickeroonies

2) Email notifications. I hate it, and fear that soon, they’ll insist only a Y! id will be used to send emails, and what’s more, you need to reply via comments only through Y! mail. (Yes, I know, extrapolating. But…)

3) Content filtering.
That’s how this stupidity begins.

One of the best things about Flickr is that our membership is made up of people from so many places and diverse backgrounds. It’s important to us that everyone feel comfortable, despite vastly different cultural and personal comfort levels. What I like, you might not, and it’s up to the entire community to make this work.

In other words, censorship.

Listen, flickr-oonies, I don’t want some staff tell me my photos are safe or not. How is one person the judge of what’s acceptable and what’s not? The flickr community is vastly capable of judging what it likes and what it does not, and needs no hand-holding from you. Seriously. If my photos offend some people, they will either tell me, or move to a stream they like.

What next? I can only post photos of cute babies in pink clothing next to a cat? Oh, wait, that may be pedophilia. And bestiality. And flickr doesn’t have that, right?

Besides, some parts of these worry me greatly. When I signed up, I didn’t see so many Don’t-s.—

Can somebody tell me if there’s a very close alternative to flickr? Zoomr doesn’t interest me much. I have loads of photos on flickr now, and quite a bit of time, effort and relationships invested in that place. Would be a pity to lose them all, but this Content filtering thing worries me.