𝓒𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓲𝓬𝓮 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓮𝓵𝓮𝓹𝓱𝓪𝓷𝓽

If you save the images to your account, you can repost them when the thread calls for it.

eg I have a photo of my foot when I broke it off at the ankle. It comes up occasionally and the link is still usable years later. You also have more control over visibility (and posting to Imgur users etc, ie don’t).

For throwaway memes you’ll never want to share again, treating it like a url shortener is great.

I was also looking to support good non advertising startups at the time, the 2000s we were still excited about what an open web would become, before enshitification became the norm.

My freedoms>your kids life

-Americans

Bigger vehicles with high hoods too.

I’m so old I remember the first post. Hey you can host images for reddit here. The other image hosting sites at the time sucked, they were slow, purged content frequently, and were full of ads. I signed up immediately and imgur was good for almost 10 years and nearly the only place images from reddit reddit users were hosted. I think the pressure to monetize combined with reddit’s own image hosting push sent them into the enshitification death spiral.

Or the government sets up an age verification service that doesn’t store logs and only reports numbers in aggregate. The restricted site sends you and a unique id off to the government service, you verify there and it hands back the id & a yes/no token to the site.

The government already has nearly all the tools to make this happen. They already have id verification services to use & web front ends to copy. Just build the public API and insist restricted sites use it.