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)
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i’m not 100% sure what you mean, but I think if you post a URL to an image hosted outside, it will create a thumbnail of it which is stored locally to the instance. i don’t believe it will store the full sized image?
I was trying to figure out if the thumbnail created is smaller/lighter than the images I post, because I already use to make them small in Gimp before posting. So if that doesn’t really change, I might as well upload pix directly on Lemmy.ca, it’s easier to display in my post in one click. But I’m more concerned about people uploading big pix here, which I prefer not to recommend in the community I created. So I think I will add something saying “reduce the size of your pix, or host them outside”. Thanks for the reply.
IMO Imgur is best for posting images because it won’t increase the server cost of a lemmy instance.
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 ?
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.
