Quick and easy posting images to Lemmy

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Not sure if this is the right place, or if it's been done before but:

I've been doing this for a while now and figured I'd add this tip in case other people find it helpful.

Instead of uploading images to lemmy world and taking up disk space, when I have an image I want to add, I right click and copy link.

Then paste the link inside () after writing ![] like so:

![](www.google.com/image.jpg)

It becomes second nature pretty quickly.

EDIT: ok so to avoid hotlinking, upload/copy the image to catbox, and then use the technique described above.

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They can handle the disk space. Images are small and even smaller when compressed

Well, most admins I see disagree on that

If lemmy has a feature to attach images then we should use that. If it's not working efficiently then it should be fixed instead of building a culture where people are afraid to upload an image.

Video I can understand but we shouldn't be so stingy as to say don't upload images.

People have been using Imgur on Reddit for years, I don't see how using catmoe is different here. Don't forget that content is sent to every federated instance, that can fill up very quick once we get more users

Imgur was owned by reddit and made for the purpose of hosting content for reddit. You couldn't attach images directly in the old reddit.

Alan Schaaf created Imgur while he was at uni and he never worked for Reddit, but I believe it was made for Reddit primarily (Reddit didn't support uploading images until 2016).

I run a server and find that often times the images that come over are full-size uploads. pictrs doesn’t seem to be doing any resizing or compression on them, and the originals are instead getting dumped over to servers that federate. It’s actually my biggest fear right now because that alone can fill up disk space real quick.

It might be a configuration or something I can change, but I’ve yet to figure it out.

I moved my instance to object storage because the pictrs storage got out of hand pretty quickly! It's not really sustainable at block storage prices.

I need to look into that. It’s not too bad yet but this is prime time to get that kind of thing sorted.