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        If something is important to me or feel like it could be of significance I will go to archive.org and archive it.
        Else it’s not important. If it’s just text, I will link it in my obsidian KB and copy the picture from the source if it’s that important.

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            Some user may post the next DenverCoder9 comment. You never know.

            Except if you only repost memes. Then they only have an entertainment value.
            But then maybe someone from KnowYourMeme will research with a post you did 10 years ago.

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      It is not difficult to open a link with a picture if the user uses Lemmy through a browser. However, when you use the Lemmy app, it becomes inconvenient to constantly open pictures through the browser.

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        Using Sync so I can’t relate to the picture opening in browser.
        Sync is very good with handling that specific part.

        Besides that my point still stands: Less storage needs and being a burden on the ressources of the lemmy instance provider.

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        use an app that embeds the image / gif into the post.

        like sync, and most likely other apps too.

        some hostings are still not supported, but the main ones are.

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    From my instance sidebar:

    To save on server-storage, please consider using third-party providers like imgur if you want to post images, thanks!

    And also the recent issue mentioned by @dandroid@dandroid.app, a few lemmy instances wiped out most user-uploaded images as a result, and others no longer allow image uploads at all

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    Well since the CSAM issues, I shut down the image hosting part of my instance, and it will stay down until lemmy comes out with a way to disable image caching from other instances. I can’t speak for everyone, but externally hosted images are my only option for now.

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    Because they don’t want me (or many others) to see the image, presumably.

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    Because its better for the lemmy Servers storage, also lemmy hosted pictures often have federation issues, when a image is hosted somewhere else it only needs to federate a text.

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      It turns out that the image inserted by the link will be correctly displayed on other instances and Lemmy clients (as opposed to uploading the image directly to your own instance).

      Thanks for the explanation.