Hello everyone,
Following this post, it seems that quite a few users can’t see catbox.moe pictures.
Catbox was my preferred option as they have a handy Firefox extension that allows to upload pictures with just a click, and get the link directly in the clipboard.
My understanding was also that by having the pictures on catbox, we avoided storing copies of pictures on every Lemmy instance. Is this still the case? I read a bit about proxying pictures (https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4035) and it seems like this is more related to keep all media required by an instance locally, to avoid broken links.
So long story short: what should be the recommended way to share pictures on Lemmy?
- Use a hoster like https://imgbb.com/
- Upload pictures locally
I use Lensdump - I see you can now upload video too.
Catbox is a weird one - I could see images but not video or the main page through Wi-Fi but it works on mobile signal. After getting my phone repaired it now all works. Which I can’t explain.
That’s wild ha ha
Lensdump looks cool, but requires an account, correct?
And a donation to create an account fyi. I’m fine w donating to good projects just letting know
I don’t think I donated to get one as I wanted to test it before committing. Might have changed though.
It seems indeed paid now
From here:
Thanks. I would rather give 5 bucks per month to a few Lemmy instances though
Oh indeed, it was more to show that there will be free invitations available, hopefully out of the view of miscreants.
Especially as it as just a screen replacement.
Yes, but it is handy to have as you can access all your old files in folders. You nay just want to bang an image up somewhere and share it but there are memes and gifs you may use multiple times.