Even the CBC is making an article about it! 😅

  • Bagou01@sh.itjust.works
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    3 years ago

    How come Reddit’s hosting costs are so high? It’s a content aggregator so mostly directs to other sites. While for original content, it used to rely on Imgur for hosting images, does it not anymore? And text content shouldn’t use that much resources or maybe I’m wrong?

    • saigot@lemmy.ca
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      3 years ago

      it used to rely on Imgur for hosting images, does it not anymore?

      People still use imgur, but reddit hosts a fair amount of content directly now. It’s video player is notoriously bad. Imgur has slowly turned into a socia media in it’s own right and is slowly starting to move off reddit (deleting images uploaded by non-account holders for instance).