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:
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.
People have been using Imgur on Reddit for years, I don’t see how using catmoe is different here. Don’t forget that content is sent to every federated instance, that can fill up very quick once we get more users
Imgur was owned by reddit and made for the purpose of hosting content for reddit. You couldn’t attach images directly in the old reddit.
Alan Schaaf created Imgur while he was at uni and he never worked for Reddit, but I believe it was made for Reddit primarily (Reddit didn’t support uploading images until 2016).