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Re:Tell HN: Please Stop Using Imgur on Monday June 06, 2022 @03:01PM (#31644406)
Former Imgur employee (left years ago)

I do not agree with the moral framing you are using. Image hosting suffers from the free-rider problem [1], at least given our lack of infrastructure for micropayments in the browser. It is not surprising that there is a shortage of it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-rider_problem