Yes, there is. You have 705 post score and 565 comment score.

Some have sure, most I doubt. The largest instance certainly hasn’t.

Intent is irrelevant. Humans don’t work that way and will continue to downvote what they don’t like/agree with and upvote what they do like/agree with. Creating a system that ignores how people work and asking them to please use it how you want will never work.

Everyone should just embrace how it’s actually used and move on.

I read the article, it’s also shit and fails to properly talk about the issue instead of ranting about data loss.

Did you read the article? Because as far as I can see it fails to actually say shit about the problem. From just this article I can see why people are blaming the author for not having redundancy.

The Arstechnica articles however do actually say what’s going on, so yeah this appears to be a real issue with these drives disconnecting.

More like, it’s less sketchy if you pay for a domain at all. .ml was free, what did they think was going to happen?

They can do that in the image as well.

Copy/pasted text stays with time too and doesn’t have the issues that pictures of text do. Also hosted images disappear all the time.