[FireBeyond]

> At the peak of its popularity, Flickr was an interesting glimpse of the coming age of algorithmic homogeneity. In the mid-2010s, most of their top photos looked basically the same: heavily shopped, oversaturated HDR landscapes.

I agree with that. And then I moved to 500px, and it was the same. Started off promising, became very homogenous. Landscapes like you say, and the People sections were heavy with Eastern European semi-soft focus nudes in nature.

[paradox460]

One thing I can say about 500px is that it's one of the few Internet properties I made money on without really having to do anything more than just use it (newsvine was the other)

I uploaded a bunch of photos once, forgot about them, and then a year or two later got an email asking to license them for commercial/stock use