The Flickr Love Never Flickers

On a psychoanalytical scale, it’s likely problematic to profess love to a web site. Eff that. In yesterday’s early morning Mastodon scroll I saw a link to Anil Dash’s post that seemed to be, if you judged on title alone, an inquiry about NASA Artemis II photos. https://dashes.com/2026/04/30/artemis-photos-flickr/ I gave it the quick scan scroll, which spoke to wanting go read it in more detail. After the morning dog walk. By the time I had returned, my friend Gardner Campbell had emailed me asking, have you read this with the same said link. I leave it as an exercise for the link clicker, if they do that anymore, to read it on their own. It’s a loving tribute to flickr which at 22 years old is earlly Cambrian era for a web site that is not oly still there, but still vital. Even better is the link to the email interview conversation posted by Jessamyn West on the flickr blog (they have a real honest blog, reason enough for love) Anil Dash – using community to build power, for the rich…