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

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[–] Blaze@feddit.org 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.cafe 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh sorry, misread that. That could be an option, but then will that picture still be replicated to all the Lemmy instances? Curiously, nobody touched on that point yet 😄

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It might not propagate to instances which disable image uploads, as we found with diagonlemmy.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Good point. Also a reminder to post there!

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

Thanks for the reminder!