Knots is the best alternative at the moment for those interested in decentralized money instead of jpeg hosting. Core wants to take bitcoin in a different direction, abandoning the monetary use case for a distributed data storage system, and many node operators aren't interested in that. It's a simple matter of scope creep, a problem that plagues many software projects. There are plenty of other options available for cloud file storage but Bitcoin is our only hope for decentralized money.
This person is not a Bitcoiner.
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Cat Photos = CP
1. The mistake is that it was merged too soon, without community conensus. So now governance has become a central point of failure.
2. Dont put images in the block chain, put a reference to them instead, and store them off-chain. Alt. narratives are red herrings.
3. This change increases the attack surface, with unclear consequences. That is particularly bad when securing $2 trillion of users savings.
4. Sensible heuristics can limit or make more expensive these non-standard transactions, which is one of the smart things Satoshi figured out.
Still not too late to fix.