Indeed, I thought reddit self-hosting images would be its death for this reason: it's just a moneysink. But it seems to be going well. Perhaps the rest of the

Indeed, I thought reddit self-hosting images would be its death for this reason: it's just a moneysink. But it seems to be going well. Perhaps the rest of the site's traffic is subsidizing what they spend on the image hosting? Or maybe bandwidth and storage costs are finally lower than how much each image costs, given that our eyes haven't gotten any better and so a certain size jpeg is simply good enough?