• Legendsofanus@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Can somebody explain on the purpose of these sites?

    The whole time when I was using reddit I would just upload from my gallery to the app, never had to use an image uploader website, it sounds like a pain to use.

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      1 year ago

      That’s because you arrived when reddit already had its image hosting.
      Before you could only upload a link, so you had to find a hosting site.
      It’d be the same if lemmy didn’t have one.
      And in fact it’s like that for me, I didn’t configured pict-rs, so I can’t upload images to my lemmy instance, I need to configure it or use a hosting site.

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        1 year ago

        Wow image-hosting is a thing. Why don’t they just have something so essential out of the box, is it expensive or something

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          1 year ago

          It requires a lot of storage space. Much more than for just text.

          Also, additional liability for hosting images uploaded by literally anyone, that could depict abuse, or be copyrighted.

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      1 year ago

      Using them do add one or two extra steps before posting. Images can hog up server resources and using these third-party sites reduces the burden for the server of your instance which is run by volunteers/hobbyists with money often coming from their own pockets. Its just a nice thing to voluntarily do.