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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by luthis@lemmy.nz to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

Not sure if this is the right place, or if it's been done before but:

I've been doing this for a while now and figured I'd add this tip in case other people find it helpful.

Instead of uploading images to lemmy world and taking up disk space, when I have an image I want to add, I right click and copy link.

Then paste the link inside () after writing ![] like so:

![](www.google.com/image.jpg)

It becomes second nature pretty quickly.

EDIT: ok so to avoid hotlinking, upload/copy the image to catbox, and then use the technique described above.

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[-] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 21 points 1 year ago

I run a server and find that often times the images that come over are full-size uploads. pictrs doesn’t seem to be doing any resizing or compression on them, and the originals are instead getting dumped over to servers that federate. It’s actually my biggest fear right now because that alone can fill up disk space real quick.

It might be a configuration or something I can change, but I’ve yet to figure it out.

[-] jcrabapple@infosec.pub 11 points 1 year ago
[-] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 6 points 1 year ago

Lol thanks! I was pretty stoked when I snagged it and got everything set up.

[-] chrisbit@leminal.space 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I moved my instance to object storage because the pictrs storage got out of hand pretty quickly! It's not really sustainable at block storage prices.

[-] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 5 points 1 year ago

I need to look into that. It’s not too bad yet but this is prime time to get that kind of thing sorted.

this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2023
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