

I can’t tell if you’re joking, this is something I would say if I were trolling. Just in case you’re serious: If they have human authors they are created with EXPLICIT consent. That’s how fiction works xD That’s like condemning all fiction literature because the people in the stories were forced into horrible situations for the sake of the plot.
This guy didn’t want to do the leg work of emailing his photos to his friends, and declares self-hosting isn’t the solution to a social net? I totally see the point in community hosting, in fact I’m all for that.
But really? You don’t have to make your servers public facing, you just white-list the people you want to see your stuff and make sure to organize your drives with public and private pages.
He went through all that and didn’t take it far enough.