The weird thing about your catbox posts is that at one point in time I was clearly able to see them. I remember those Pokémon posts you made in [email protected] and even commenting on them. But now I cannot see them.
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AFAIK, pictures aren't duplicated among instances. When you upload a picture, it generates a link on your instance like https://discuss.tchncs.de/pictrs/image/93df1acb-a898-46c9-bc07-d2b7467c345e.jpeg and that link is shared (copied) from instance to instance.
Edit: Thank you for jumping in!
What about LW, was it already the case in 0.19.3?
I think it has to do with the technical way comments are handled.
When comments are sent from one instance to another, only their "markdown code" is transmitted. If you include an image in your comment, that becomes a line in markdown (which is text) that looks like this:
So yes, this is not dependent on version; it's similar to how you have a <img src="..."> tag in HTML that only links to the image, instead of copying it.
But then wait, proxying doesn't happen?
Interesting, thanks
From a browser image: Right-click an image and click Copy Image on the popup. In the lemmy comment editor press ctrl-V or right-click and click Paste. Lemmy uploads the image and constructs an inline link to it.
From an image file: In the Lemmy comment editor click the Upload Image button and select an image file.
I was mostly cautious about storing that picture across hundreds of instances
I just let the fediverse worry about that. I guess just don't share stuff you don't want to share.
My concern about resources consumption, not privacy, I mostly post memes 😄
Well, you're doing god's work then, son. Just trust in His plan.
Pinging @[email protected] as you opened a similar thread a few days ago
Hi, Blaze. :-)
TBH, I haven't finished sorting out the reptiles and pondering the possibilities. Also, one thing I regret in that post is failing to clarify that I'd like to find a reasonable degree of confidence in finding a site that will maintain my content (not unlike as in a "will") in to the medium-ish future, given my personal health situation, plus the fact that I live in a country that's pretty much jumping in to a volcano after its recent election-process. (TBH, I don't see myself surviving the next 4+ years)
So, in terms of personally setting up some kind of host server that could potentially work for years after I'm gone, I'm pretty dang clueless over here. Maybe it's a good option if I could coordinate such with my Lemmy-buds and some manner of financial legacy, I guess. Maybe. It seems like kinda unlikely to me, but who knows?
Now, circling back to the dreaded Imgur-- It really is confusing. Quoting myself from just an hour ago:
I’ve had stuff that I uploaded privately ~10yrs ago that’s still up on Imgur, and I’ve had some public posts that got traction at the time deleted after only ~8mos or so, plus other combinations of those factors, including file size issues.
Right now it’s pretty baffling trying to understand their method, and I would guess it’s more of just some internal issue relative to Imgur, for example, maybe they just say ‘this data bank is having issues, so let’s migrate the paid content, delete the rest, and retire the data bank, replacing it with newer hardware.’ Something like that, anyway…
Thought I was going nuts until I saw your post the other day. (Was that you?) Yeah, I've had (seemingly) random pics go missing. I know for damn sure I posted more pics in 12-years of reddit and 1 here than what's showing.
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