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
    • JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      2 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…

      • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        2 days ago

        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.