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?
- Use a hoster like https://imgbb.com/
- Upload pictures locally
No, i think proxying does in fact not happen. If somebody puts a (link to a) image in a post or comment, your client downloads the picture from that link directly. Proxying through your instance doesn’t happen, and in fact, that could indeed be a privacy issue.
For example, you could set up your own domain and host the picture there. Now, if somebody else downloads the picture from there, your server could figure out their IP address. Which is probably a privacy issue.