Wow, what about the long term, can images become a problem?
I would think so. Who is paying to store them once the content referencing them is long forgotten, and the users posting them may even be dead? I think all sites (including centralized) are going to eventually face this, once growth slows and they start to look more closely at cost centers.
Short term, the cost of boosting a server is pretty low. Long term, I think it's a problem.
I think so too social media will be long-term turn into a graveyard. Idk how many people are dead on Facebook, but I would expect the number is increasing day to day. They sell data, so maybe they can refinance it ( also with data from dead people, like visitors to those pages, no idea).
But in a decentralized world, someone needs to pay the bill. Best case the user or the dapp. If the user pay ( own the data). Dapp = Web2 situation.
I could imagine the community can purchase with crating the community image hosting. I think with the combination of a token, that could be really good. Sure hosting would be different to the onchain things, but it could be in one transaction ( not a blockchain transaction).
The biggest problem I see, it is pretty centralized. And hive without pictures would be workout very bad ( blogging in general).