Quick and easy posting images to Lemmy (lemmy.nz)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by luthis@lemmy.nz to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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Not sure if this is the right place, or if it's been done before but:

I've been doing this for a while now and figured I'd add this tip in case other people find it helpful.

Instead of uploading images to lemmy world and taking up disk space, when I have an image I want to add, I right click and copy link.

Then paste the link inside () after writing ![] like so:

![](www.google.com/image.jpg)

It becomes second nature pretty quickly.

EDIT: ok so to avoid hotlinking, upload/copy the image to catbox, and then use the technique described above.

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[-] Fizz@lemmy.nz -5 points 1 year ago

They can handle the disk space. Images are small and even smaller when compressed

[-] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 27 points 1 year ago

Well, most admins I see disagree on that

[-] Fizz@lemmy.nz 6 points 1 year ago

If lemmy has a feature to attach images then we should use that. If it's not working efficiently then it should be fixed instead of building a culture where people are afraid to upload an image.

Video I can understand but we shouldn't be so stingy as to say don't upload images.

[-] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

People have been using Imgur on Reddit for years, I don't see how using catmoe is different here. Don't forget that content is sent to every federated instance, that can fill up very quick once we get more users

[-] Fizz@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 year ago

Imgur was owned by reddit and made for the purpose of hosting content for reddit. You couldn't attach images directly in the old reddit.

[-] Deebster@lemmyrs.org 4 points 1 year ago

Alan Schaaf created Imgur while he was at uni and he never worked for Reddit, but I believe it was made for Reddit primarily (Reddit didn't support uploading images until 2016).