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What's your best recommendation for sharing images on Lemmy? (wayfarershaven.eu)

submitted 1 year ago by hsl@wayfarershaven.eu to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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We can upload images directly to Lemmy but that does increase the load on the instances. What other services do you recommend? Do you have a go to?

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[–] MxRemy@lemmy.one 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you wanna stay in-fediverse, you could post the pics on a Pixelfed instance and use that as the host. Just post the pic there, copy the direct URL to it, put it in the URL bar in a post here and it will show up as a normal picture instead of a link. Also Pixelfed allows unlisted pics, like if it's stuff that would clutter up your profile.

[–] Casiraghi@feddit.it 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's a nice suggestion!

Question from a newbie: if you happen to choose an unlucky server on pixelfed, and it gets closed after a while, all the pictures will just vanish, right?

I mean, nothing to worry about if you are hosting memes or other "need to be fresh" content, but if you are looking for something that can be relevant even in the future, maybe that's a bit risky.

[–] MxRemy@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

You're probably right, yeah! In that case probably one of the other commenters' suggestions would be a better choice, I think. I'm hoping the pixelfed stuff will catch on enough that at least some instances will be more likely to stick around, but it's anyone's guess if that happens.