YSK: Lemmy has 53k monthly active users but only 1172 have ever donated - eviltoast
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    9 months ago

    The web is built on hot linking hypermedia. It is more fragile obviously, but it distributes the bandwidth and storage load. If nobody hotlinked, then small forum admins/Lemmy admins/etc. have considerably more cost to bear.