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?

    • @elboyoloco
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      12 years ago

      So you’re saying just put it on… Another instance that we need to worry about overloading… Just not a Lemmy instance?

      • @haulyard
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        32 years ago

        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?