Hello everyone,
Following this post, it seems that quite a few users can’t see catbox.moe pictures.
Catbox was my preferred option as they have a handy Firefox extension that allows to upload pictures with just a click, and get the link directly in the clipboard.
My understanding was also that by having the pictures on catbox, we avoided storing copies of pictures on every Lemmy instance. Is this still the case? I read a bit about proxying pictures (https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4035) and it seems like this is more related to keep all media required by an instance locally, to avoid broken links.
So long story short: what should be the recommended way to share pictures on Lemmy?
- Use a hoster like https://imgbb.com/
- Upload pictures locally
Especially as it as just a screen replacement.
Yes, but it is handy to have as you can access all your old files in folders. You nay just want to bang an image up somewhere and share it but there are memes and gifs you may use multiple times.