Comment on Lemmy's Image Problem
GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months ago
Another issue is that image storage is a huge resource burden, to the point where instance admins will simply purge images periodically to keep their database at a reasonable size. It seems like every time I look at Lemmy posts older than a couple months, the images are simply broken.
I’m not convinced image support should be built into Lemmy in the first place. Back on Reddit, people relied on external image hosts like imgur for many years, and those worked a lot better than the image system Reddit eventually built in (which is covered in wall-to-wall anti-features like the inability to simply load a goddamn image directly).
I agree with this. Also Lemmy likes to reformat images when you upload them. Its stupid. I have to hotlink from elsewhere anyway so yeah removing it makes more sense.
It would also help reduce the proliferation of things like CSAM thus reducing admin overhead.
My instance went down for almost 24 hours yesterday and it’s really small, and I post so much I was actually worried I broke it.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
We saw what happend with that when imgur and a gif hoster (forgot the name) decided that the free loaders are occupying too much space.
Suddenly the archival troops backed several TBs from imgur.
GammaGames@beehaw.org 3 months ago
gfycat
GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months ago
Yeah, that was certainly not ideal. This is a problem with centralization more than it is with integration. I’d rather see a separate decentralized image hosting service. I feel like an image host and a link aggregation/discussion forum require different skills to develop and run, and it would probably be best to have something more specialized.