Change is intentional. We have it set to keep 100 images, so at roughly 1MB per image you can expect this to eat about 100MB. If this is too much for you, we can do some tuning as we update.
The 1st amendment in America only applies to the government. Censorship is a thing yes, but private corporations have a right to censor and restrict what "speech" (in all forms) occurs on their platform, ala PragerU v. YouTube.
@beritbunny We had some network issues we were working through yesterday. Short term there may be some issues, but long term (a week?) you should be seeing acceptable performance.