• genoxidedev1@kbin.social
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      Uploading directly uses server resources which are voluntarily provided, that’s why using external providers and just posting links instead is usually better.

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      Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should. The individual hosts of the Fediverse are limited on space, and jamming that limited space full of images, rather than using an external image hosting service, is worse for the sustainability of these spaces

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        In addition, help out your instance admins by resizing the image if you don’t need it in high resolution.

        Uploading a 250Kb file rather than a 2.5MB one makes a difference when thousands of users are doing it.

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          Because pretty much all instances are being run by volunteers and hobbyists, and not a for-profit who is profiting from your content. This is just something nice to do for reducing the resources they require to run the service.

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    I think imgchest.com deserves more recognition. It has a UI that’s a lot like old imgur, doesn’t compress the hell out of images and the person that runs it seems pretty cool.

    (I’ve also talked to the person who runs postimages, and they seem pretty cool to fwiw.)

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    Any thoughts about uploading images straight to lemmy.world vs using these sites to host? Is either option vulnerable to takedowns?

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      Images could eat up the server resources of your instance. Using a third-party service reduces the burden on them.

      Anything that you don’t host yourself are vulnerable to takedowns. But as someone who has been using postimages.org for many years now, I have never had any such issue with them, and haven’t heard of anyone else facing them as well. The other three services I linked also have a good reputation as reliable services.

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        As an instance admin I gladly host user files.

        One thing to take into account is that images posted by an instanceA user on an instanceB community will still be hosted on instance A.

        So as long as an instance doesn’t host more users than it can handle it should be fine.

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    Man, I remember when the imagur guy made a post saying hi everyone I made a site we can use for pictures on Reddit. How’ long ago was that?

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    It’s kind of crazy how these popular services are always insistent on killing themselves off with these horrible changes.

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      Those services are seldom profitable. Especially as they get larger, their costs rise. Meanwhile, imgur, as a service that provides embedded content, has little opportunity to make money off of their users. They rely on infinite growth and ever more people investing money into them to keep financially viable.

      But there is no infinite growth and imgur has reached its limits. Now they need to bind users to their platform and rely on ad revenue. So old content gets purged, along with nsfw content, in order to entice advertisers.

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    Can somebody explain on the purpose of these sites?

    The whole time when I was using reddit I would just upload from my gallery to the app, never had to use an image uploader website, it sounds like a pain to use.

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      That’s because you arrived when reddit already had its image hosting.
      Before you could only upload a link, so you had to find a hosting site.
      It’d be the same if lemmy didn’t have one.
      And in fact it’s like that for me, I didn’t configured pict-rs, so I can’t upload images to my lemmy instance, I need to configure it or use a hosting site.

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        Wow image-hosting is a thing. Why don’t they just have something so essential out of the box, is it expensive or something

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          It requires a lot of storage space. Much more than for just text.

          Also, additional liability for hosting images uploaded by literally anyone, that could depict abuse, or be copyrighted.

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      Using them do add one or two extra steps before posting. Images can hog up server resources and using these third-party sites reduces the burden for the server of your instance which is run by volunteers/hobbyists with money often coming from their own pockets. Its just a nice thing to voluntarily do.

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    Do any of these have the ability to link an album? I often put multiple photos together, and post the that link to my communities.

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      I will have to test this manually across sites to know because none of them advertises themselves as doing this. But nevertheless, the best practice would be to strip down such data yourselves before uploading. There are many apps that will allow you to easily do that.

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      They look good. Large size limit of 200 mb and NSFW-friendly. But unfortunately, according to their FAQ, they are blocked in Australia, UK, Ireland, Iran and Afghanistan (the latter two are not surprising though).