The thing about sites like these is that they are augmented by other sites like YouTube or Imgur.

If you live in the UK now, you won't be able to open Imgur links, catbox rarely works and YouTube requires age verification.

There are of course alternatives, but they're barely used.

A small bastion where ppl still make sense, lemmy is why I still have faith in ppl on the internet, what we get without controversy fueled algorithims is people just actually discussing sht and being helpful