3DPrinting

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3DPrinting is a place where makers of all skill levels and walks of life can learn about and discuss 3D printing and development of 3D printed parts and devices.

The r/functionalprint community is now located at: or [email protected]

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No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia. Code of Conduct.
Be respectful, especially when disagreeing. Everyone should feel welcome here.
No porn (NSFW prints are acceptable but must be marked NSFW)
No Ads / Spamming / Guerrilla Marketing
Do not create links to reddit
If you see an issue please flag it
No guns
No injury gore posts

If you need an easy way to host pictures, https://catbox.moe may be an option. Be ethical about what you post and donate if you are able or use this a lot. It is just an individual hosting content, not a company. The image embedding syntax for Lemmy is ![](URL)

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[META] I updated the 3D Printing community side bar with info about posting images (self.3dprinting)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by j4k3 to c/3dprinting

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We are a picture heavy community here. There are several options to help lessen the load on Lemmy instance caching. One option is to join/host a Pixelfed Fediverse instance. Another option is Post Images. When you are ready to share an image in a comment or post, upload the image to the hosting website, right click/select the hosted picture, and in your browser select view image in a new tab. Your image hosting option must only display the image on this tab for the image to display properly here. Copy the link from this new browser tab and paste it into the image URL option inside your posts or comments. Thanks!

This is intended mostly for users posting links generated by places like imgur that are not the raw image content. These links from imgur include user trackers and do not work well, or at all, with privacy focused browsers. The Post Images website functions like imgur did originally, but has a terms and conditions policy you may or may not agree with. I only mention it as an option because of ease of use.

You can embed URL link images into the main post and into comments using the [](imageURL) or button built into the comment editor.

EDIT: the syntax for embedding URL images in a comment is:

![image](http://this.isTheOnlyPartOfTheSyntaxYouEdit.url/and-this-must-be-an-image-only-and-end-in-an-image-format-like.jpeg)

Ex.2:

![image](https://my.image.url/pic1.jpeg)

Full disclosure [META-INCEPTION]: I am not knowledgeable about the fediverse back end, or its data management. I have seen posts by users that seem more knowledgeable than myself writing about trying to avoid posting images directly to the instance. I have seen a conversation in the Self Hosted community about the size of the instance picture cache and how long instances plan to keep it around. I have no clue how the picture cache on each instance relates to post image retention and permanence. When making posts, using URLs hosted elsewhere the post seems to upload faster IMO. I have asked Ruud about what he considers best practices for visual media. He declined to comment about images. He mentioned they may look into native video support in the future and that we could always make an account on his peertube server and (externally) link to posts there to share here. Please inform me if there is anything I have misunderstood.

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[–] j4k3 3 points 2 years ago

Thanks. Welcome! I added the link to the sidebar here.