• Blaze (he/him)@feddit.orgOP
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    16 hours ago

    Back in the days, uploading a picture in Lemmy would replicate the picture on every instance. To avoid that, I used catbox.

    Not sure if that changed nowadays, I think it depends on the instance configuration about pictures proxifying or something like that

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      16 hours ago

      uploading a picture in Lemmy would replicate the picture on every instance.

      I thought that was the point? Anyway, I just thought you should know, I have a feeling it isn’t just me who can’t see the catbox posts, so maybe try an alternative for a while, that’s all… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

      • Blaze (he/him)@feddit.orgOP
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        16 hours ago

        I thought that was the point?

        No, by using catbox, all instances just refer to catbox, which is the single host of the picture.

        In the past, you would have a copy of pictures posted directly stored by every instance, consuming resources for every of them

        You’re the first one complaining, if there’s someone else I’ll reconsider!

        • Norah (pup/it/she)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          3 hours ago

          In the past, you would have a copy of pictures posted directly stored by every instance, consuming resources for every of them

          I don’t think that’s been the case for quite some time. As a test, what is the link for this image in my comment? It should be blahaj’s pictrs instance:

          (it’ll either show as lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs or pictrs.blahaj.zone)