Pretty!
Just so you know, Lemmy can host images directly. It's a lot nicer than having to go to a third party site to view them.
this post was submitted on 10 Feb 2025
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I Took A Picture
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Welcome to /c/ITAP, a place to share any photos you may have taken or seen that you think others would enjoy! It does not need to be OC, it just needs to be a photo that you think is beautiful and worth sharing.
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Rule 2: No photos of politicians or political rallies.
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I use Imagus on Firefox (also on Chrome). I point at pictures and they pop up, full res.
I use the Thunder app on Android to browse Lemmy, and a lot of other people use apps, too. Your post doesn't even get a thumbnail, so we don't know what we're going to see until we click it, and it requires us to view the link in a webview that takes significantly longer to load, and imgur is kinda ugly. Meanwhile, Lemmy hosted images are downloaded and cached automatically and load almost instantly when tapped.
Just my thoughts. Using the built-in image hosting is free, and has benefits for Lemmy users.
Always happier to use built-in features! How do I do it?
Or when creating a post, the URL field should have a similar button.
Finally some fucking OC. I love it.
Agreed. I'd rather this comm be dead than be full of random non-OC. I mean, I get it, it's a chicken and egg problem. No one's going to use the comm if no one uses the comm. It needs content so people even see it in their feed, but I'd honestly rather it be full of average OC than professional images from the web. It totally defeats the point of "I took a picture". Stamets could have just posted a bunch of average OC instead of 5-star web images until it picked up. I dunno. Just my two cents.
I thought this place was all OC? Anyway, that's all I'll post, OC only.
From the name one would think, but no.
From the sidebar:
Welcome to /c/ITAP, a place to share any photos you may have taken or seen that you think others would enjoy! It does not need to be OC, it just needs to be a photo that you think is beautiful and worth sharing.
Isn't that what /c/pics is for?