Not sure if this is the right place, or if it’s been done before but:

I’ve been doing this for a while now and figured I’d add this tip in case other people find it helpful.

Instead of uploading images to lemmy world and taking up disk space, when I have an image I want to add, I right click and copy link.

Then paste the link inside () after writing ![] like so:

![](www.google.com/image.jpg)

It becomes second nature pretty quickly.

EDIT: ok so to avoid hotlinking, upload/copy the image to catbox, and then use the technique described above.

  • orca@orcas.enjoying.yachtsEnglish
    21·
    1 year ago

    I run a server and find that often times the images that come over are full-size uploads. pictrs doesn’t seem to be doing any resizing or compression on them, and the originals are instead getting dumped over to servers that federate. It’s actually my biggest fear right now because that alone can fill up disk space real quick.

    It might be a configuration or something I can change, but I’ve yet to figure it out.