I see that Lemmy is creating a new link to images hosted outside of this instance. Are they stored on the server even if I post an outside link ? (Asking as a way to find best practice regarding server load with pix)

  • whoareu@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 year ago

    IMO Imgur is best for posting images because it won’t increase the server cost of a lemmy instance.

    • ortaviz@lemmy.caOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      That’s what I’m thinking too. But when I click on the “expand here” button on a post, I see the image is loaded from a lemmy.ca link, so I was wondering if images are stored on here anyways, resized or compressed probably ? In which case it doesn’t really help to host small pix outside, only if original image size is huge…

      Also, imgur is blocking Tor uploads, if you like a little bit of added privacy. So I’m going for imgbb. Any other pix hosting that’s better for direct linking ?

      • whoareu@lemmy.caEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Yes you are right. If the server is caching the images anyways then it doesn’t make sense to upload it to third party services.

        Thanks for mentioning imgbb. I was tired of ads and trackers on imgur and been finding a good alternative of imgur.