oftentimes images and videos are used when they are not necessary, for example take this video

https://twitter.com/i/status/1762937968820699594

it could have been a table that would both be easier to use and use less hosting data

but people are stupid and lazy and and post without consideration of other's time or of hosting bandwidth / storage

this is why Torba is 100% right for what he did. anybody too stupid to understand that is not an asset to the platform anyway.

text should be free because text is your free speech. but pictures, videos etc. 90% of the time it's just people being stupid and lazy and for the other 10% of the time you can buy a membership or host it yourself.