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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I always thought it was better to have the picture once rather than on every instance,

I'm not sure what you mean..

this post of yours for example loads fine, why not just always post that way instead of using a go between?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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)_/¯

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day 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)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

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

Fair enough.. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯