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?

  1. Use a hoster like https://imgbb.com/
  2. Upload pictures locally
  • Illecors@lemmy.cafeEnglish
    5·
    2 days ago

    For my family pixelfed instance I’ve discovered ffshare - it’s job is to act something like a pipe in a unix shell and strip exif data as well as downsize the source before sending it off to the target app.

    It’s not exactly what you’ve asked for, but it could be used here. Android, at least.

    • Elevator7009@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      I was about to say thank you because I have just been finding some random image downsizer online, then I toss it through an EXIF stripper app on my phone and post. But then I checked and found ffshare appears to be just an Android app :( I guess that is what you meant by “Android, at least”. I Lemmy from an iPhone and I’m not about to get an Android emulator on my computer just to use ffshare.

    • Blaze (he/him)@feddit.orgOPEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      Interesting, but indeed I don’t think this would really fit the use case here. Posts to Pixelfed can’t be anonymous, right?

      • Illecors@lemmy.cafeEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        I didn’t mean pixelfed as an upload target, rather ffshare as a tool to reduce the size of the image and upload directly to lemmy.