So now that Lemmy and the community overall are getting a lot of attention, with /c/memes being one of the biggest communities across instances, I think we should be a bit more strict about certain things.

I’d like your opinion, though. What do you think about a rule about only allowing images, and that such images need to be uploaded to Lemmy instead of linking to something like Imgur. I think that text and videos are a better fit for some other community (at least until we get something where we are able to play videos within Lemmy).

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    images need to be uploaded to Lemmy instead of linking to something like Imgur

    Not a good idea, sites like Imgur allows lemmy to not store the data, which takes up a huge amount of space, accross all instances. It’s better to have image on the instance, yes, but after a bit of work, the lemmy’s devs can show external images inline, just like on reddit.

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      Not exactly true, unlike Mastodon I believe only the original instance stores the photo. Even when browsing a remote instance, you’re loading from their server.

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        I think it’s cached on federating servers - that’s why copies of beehaw communities still exist on lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works despite defederating

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          The posts are cached, like the text and comments. The images aren’t AFAIK. The links to the images are also cached, and BeeHaw can’t tell what instance is accessing them, it just sees a request from each user’s computer for the image.

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    Instead of Imgur, a good and private alternative, I think cceptable for Lemmy, is vgy.me, I use it in ShareX as image sharing. I prefer an extern host, I think it’s better for the one which put the Lemmy server to host the images. https://vgy.me

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    Sound good. You remember the time, where “meme” only applied to images? I do. I miss those times ;)

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    Unless you’re hosting the storage, it would be wise to contact whoever does host your instance and make sure they don’t have a problem with mandating direct uploads.

    But, on this end, it isn’t necessary. It’s easy enough to click through if it doesn’t show directly.

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      note that when a user pastes an image on lemmy, it gets hosted on the user’s home instance - not to the home instance of the community where they pasted it.

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    I don’t know if I like the idea of forcing the image to be hosted on lemmy.ml. I think its good to spread out the data in the event 1 goes down? You may end up with a graveyard of broken links

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    Not sure if this is still the case, but I remember reading earlier that processing uploaded images was using some of the most resources on lemmy.ml’s servers at one point. Given the strain and load on the server already, I don’t think it would be a good idea to put even more on it by requiring images be uploaded directly

    I’m neutral about only images and no videos part