If it’s truly open source you can always host it yourself. But if you want the convenience of using someone else server then you will need an API key and pay if you reach a certain usage limit.

It’s easy to understand why they do this

Who cares tbh, it’s just a popularity contests and the one that gets more votes wins.

This 8th award won’t make Messi more goat than he already is lmao

Exactly, it’s just a popularity contest, the one that gets more votes wins and that’s it, there is no point discussing “x didn’t deserve to be 7th” or whatever.