It still is leagues better than any large alternative. Just asking people to decide on a license, and suggesting CC-licenses, made it into a vast repository of

It still is leagues better than any large alternative. Just asking people to decide on a license, and suggesting CC-licenses, made it into a vast repository of Free content. Compare and contrast to, say, instagram, where i guess everyone is hustlin' all the time, anyway, and giving things away for free would get you laughed out of the room. Flickr at least allows NSFW work, which is an essential part of culture. That invites all sorts off problems, obviously, and restricting it to pro accounts sounds like a fair compromise. It's better than the Facebook empire, again, with its Disneyland vision of human life. Flickr has, to this day, an API that lets you do almost everything at scale. I've used it quite a bit and my free account never ran into any usage limits. Compare to twitter, where you can barely start without a credit card on file. Or Instagram, where API is a four-letter word.