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Great point. Thanks for clarifying this.
Is Steemit Inc hosting the image servers that our uploaded pics go to?
No. Steemit is using Amazon Web Services.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rogeraitken/2017/01/17/fintech-steemit-migrating-servers-to-amazon-unveils-blockchain-roadmap
Aha, that explains it. Very interesting. Maybe they should migrate to SiaCoin (heh).
This is one of the things that bothered me even before I actively started using Steemit, the fact that it uses Amazon for it's hosting. It's the same Amazon who is actively working with the NSA and CIA.
I doubt @dan would be very pleased about this knowing his anarchist views. I wish someone would have asked him about this issue, but he left Steemit about the same time when it was announced that Steemit will start using Amazon's hosting services. :)
The Details About the CIA's Deal With Amazon
Government Cloud on the Rise: NSA, DOJ Move to Amazon Web Services
I haven't read anything about SiaCoin yet. :)
I just assume any large corporation is captured at this point.
It would have been cool for Steemit to partner with or power their own storage solution, but I suspect this would have been a huge layer of additional complexity. Not being able to smoothly and easily host images is immediate death to social media in 2017.
Thanks for the comment.