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Nobody asked Reddit to start hosting images and videos. If you want to turn a profit, maybe stop doing that? I think Spez comes out as very despicable in this whole situation.
Doubly so considering it was a redditor That started imgur specifically to handle this. It was a completely self-inflicted wound.
And imgur charges Apollo's dev $166 for the same amount of load reddit asked $20m for
They want to own it all without 3rd parties
I paid $5 once for a lifetime of ad free Reddit. I probably have a negative net value to them. I imagine they have only a few outcomes for a user like me:
If you engaged with content on the regular you were most likely not a net negativ. Never forget that the content we create is what makes the plattform valuable. Without content no users, without users no add and no moneys