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Gfycat.com shuts down on September 1 and all Gifs will be taken down
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this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2023
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So what's the open-source alternative for gfycat? We got a trend started here let's keep it going!
The problem with something like gfycat isn't the source code, it's the storage and bandwidth. That shit is expensive and there's no way to do it for free without showing ads and not go broke.