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One downside of using a 3rd party to host media is when it shuts down like gyfcat will in September, it will result in a lot of broken links with media forever lost.

Self hosting has less chance of losing the media at the cost of having to pay for media storage.

As a new website, I’d definitely prefer kbin or Lemmy to just focus on the core product and not self host media yet.

To be fair, I guess this helps people from doom scrolling. Thanks Elon, for getting people to touch grass instead of being glued to social media!