Watermark does a lot for spreading websites. iFunny and 9Gag should not have had the staying power they had in the ages they did, they were pretty much entirely propped up by their watermarks. Unintrusive stuff like transparent logos with a link are cool. As long as the purpose of the watermark is for the image to actually be shared rather than lock it into the site, it's effective.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Yep, definitely done with the purpose of people finding Lemmy and getting off of corporate social media. I wouldn't do it for any site that's just running a business, but for the fediverse it feels different.