@abbe98
I hear you and I’m not sure I mean the act itself is what makes things better, but rather that the awareness of costs makes you behave in a completely different way. Since actions in a self-hosting environment are felt more I believe more care is taken, which has potential domino effects for related behaviors.
It’s one thing to consider the difference between cloud-storing or self-hosting an image, another thing to choose not to store the image online at all.