Yeah of course, it depends on the method and lot of things. Anyway, I agree with you, I'm happy with the content and the spirit of the users (less trolls and haters than on reddit or commercial social networks, more like the internet users I knew late 90s or beginning 2000s).
You can still post your image to an external image sharing service (see below some), and you put the link in your post (or embed it with markdown  to place it anywhere in your post/comment).
I read every night with a kobo e-reader (next to my partner who generally sleep before me). I use night mode and a very dim brightness (2-3 %, the max I use is 4 %). It's sufficient in my opinion.
Definitely for osmand+, I think this is one of the best opensource app on Android (and the fact being openstreetmap based is a definitive plus because you can correct the map for benefit of the community).
What is considered as active ? Is someone connecting to his account and lurking considered active ? Or, someone who just up/downvote without commenting or posting ?
Now from the article (which might have been updated since posted, no criticism of OP), it's clearly unrelated to the football (soccer) match. Seems more related to the events in Israel...
Please define "normal people". ;)