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LollerCorleone Jul 11, 2023

YSK alternatives to imgur for uploading your images

Imgur now blocks several VPNs and have issues loading embedded previews in several fediverse platforms. So instead of using imgur, you could use one of the following alternatives for uploading your images....

https://kbin.social/m/youshouldknow@lemmy.world/t/178596

YSK alternatives to imgur for uploading your images - youshouldknow - kbin.social

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melroy Jul 11, 2023

You can just use fediverse (eg. kbin) to upload your image directly, without any of those instances?

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Th4tGuyII Jul 11, 2023

Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. The individual hosts of the Fediverse are limited on space, and jamming that limited space full of images, rather than using an external image hosting service, is worse for the sustainability of these spaces

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aleph Jul 11, 2023

In addition, help out your instance admins by resizing the image if you don’t need it in high resolution.

Uploading a 250Kb file rather than a 2.5MB one makes a difference when thousands of users are doing it.

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melroy

@aleph As a user admin myself, we are looking into fine-tuning those settings to limit uploads of an x amount in file size. But are we are looking into some thumbnail library to reduce the image sizes indeed.