From my instance sidebar:
To save on server-storage, please consider using third-party providers like imgur if you want to post images, thanks!
And also the recent issue mentioned by @dandroid@dandroid.app, a few lemmy instances wiped out most user-uploaded images as a result, and others no longer allow image uploads at all
Convenience of posting or not to burden their personal instance hoster?
It is not difficult to open a link with a picture if the user uses Lemmy through a browser. However, when you use the Lemmy app, it becomes inconvenient to constantly open pictures through the browser.
Using Sync so I can’t relate to the picture opening in browser.
Sync is very good with handling that specific part.Besides that my point still stands: Less storage needs and being a burden on the ressources of the lemmy instance provider.
use an app that embeds the image / gif into the post.
like sync, and most likely other apps too.
some hostings are still not supported, but the main ones are.
Well since the CSAM issues, I shut down the image hosting part of my instance, and it will stay down until lemmy comes out with a way to disable image caching from other instances. I can’t speak for everyone, but externally hosted images are my only option for now.
