Hey I’m not really a tech-savvy person yet but I was wondering if it’s better for server load to upload an image to Imgur or another image/video-hosting site first and then place the link in a post instead of directly uploading to Lemmy?
I want to contribute content-wise but I also want servers to stay up and not be overloaded. What would be best you think?
That would be nice but it also comes with the same issues that the Fediverse is trying to avoid. Hosting all images in a central server means that only one group is in control of that and it anything happens like that server going down, it would mean we won’t be able to see images until that gets fixed. It’s safer to have every instance just rely on itself.
Pixelfed?
So you’re saying just put it on… Another instance that we need to worry about overloading… Just not a Lemmy instance?
Pixelfed aligns with the fediverse mentality that reduces the risk of losing all the content because one server went down.
I wasn’t addressing compute, but on that topic, the work has to be done somewhere. Why not spread it out?