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Share images from Pixelfed? (lemmy.one)

submitted 2 years ago by MxRemy@lemmy.one to c/chat@lemmy.one

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I saw somewhere that, instead of attaching images directly to Lemmy posts, you should instead post them to a Pixelfed instance and link to it. If a lot of people did that, it should reduce the load on Lemmy instances. I made a Pixelfed account so I could do that, but I don't like that people have to click through to see the image. For some ridiculous reason I kinda thought the image would show without having to do that lol. Are those the only two possible options, or am I missing something?

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[–] duncesplayed@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago

I believe you should be able to post to Lemmy from the Pixelfed instance, rather than just posting a link to the post. E.g., from Pixelfed, I believe you can just do something like post to @chat@lemmy.one and it will magically show up here, as being posted by your Pixelfed account.

But failing that, you can just use imgur or whatever other host you trust to host images.

In a perfect world, I think we'd all have access to something like IPFS and the image wouldn't have to live in one particular place.