Photos are reformatted and all now are back to being served locally instead of using a Flickr or similar “service” website. Having someone else host the photos was attractive for a minute, but really so much worse than self publishing.
At first it felt like my ideas were being published by a large entity, perhaps a feeling of legitimacy; as if I had written something and a big newspaper put my thoughts into their big pages. When in reality it became more like I couldn’t see my own thoughts, my words didn’t exist, without asking someone else for permission.