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).

  • Krafting@lemmy.world
    41·
    2 years ago

    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.

      • ghost_laptopOPM
        62·
        2 years ago

        That’s fair, but this community is hosted on lemmy.ml so you can still have that rule, images are cached and shared among servers without the need of each server actually having to own it on their server.

    • bdonvr@thelemmy.club
      6·
      2 years ago

      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.

      • Krafting@lemmy.world
        7·
        2 years ago

        Oh, might be right, yeah.

        But still, devs should implement showing videos/images from other services to show up here inline, instead of having to click the link!

        • ghost_laptopOPM
          31·
          2 years ago

          I think that’s implemented but it’s something specific to Imgur which blocks from viewing and which may require you to code something specifically for Imgur rather than it being a universal thing. On Reddit it works because it was created to be used there.

      • autumn@reddthat.com
        3·
        2 years ago

        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

        • bdonvr@thelemmy.club
          4·
          2 years ago

          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.

    • flauschke@feddit.de
      3·
      2 years ago

      Imgur sucks but I do agree that the images should probably be uploaded to a different site