I completely agree.

The models retire, the photographer or rigger retire, or shut down because of piracy.

Torrents and download links disappearing.

Fuck pornhub for multiple reasons.

It’s such a shame.

Support the artists while you can, because that’s what they are, and preserve their works for posterity.

The problem with a 3rd party hosting site is that there’s no guarantee they suddenly won’t go out of business, or hide or delete all their nsfw content like imgur and Tumblr and many others in the past.

Just hosting images for another site like this one isn’t profitable because they can’t sell ads for the hotlinked images served to users of that other site.

It is a conundrum to find a working long term solution.

More information each /c regarding the number of subscribers and posts might be good too.

In these early stages of Lemmy’s growth, many subs comms are empty or almost empty.