Interesting 🧐 sorry to hear, in any way catbox is very easy to use for me thanks to the Firefox plugin, I haven't found any equivalent yet unfortunately

[–] ShareMySims@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I've not had issue with them before, could it be a db0 thing (since I recently moved instance, so that might be it)?

Either way, is there a reason you don't upload images directly in to a post? That's how I've been doing it.. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Either way, is there a reason you don’t upload images directly in to a post? That’s how I’ve been doing it… ¯_(ツ)_/¯

I always thought it was better to have the picture once rather than on every instance, maybe I'm wrong 😅

[–] ShareMySims@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I always thought it was better to have the picture once rather than on every instance,

I'm not sure what you mean..

this post of yours for example loads fine, why not just always post that way instead of using a go between?

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Back in the days, uploading a picture in Lemmy would replicate the picture on every instance. To avoid that, I used catbox.

Not sure if that changed nowadays, I think it depends on the instance configuration about pictures proxifying or something like that

[–] ShareMySims@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

uploading a picture in Lemmy would replicate the picture on every instance.

I thought that was the point? Anyway, I just thought you should know, I have a feeling it isn't just me who can't see the catbox posts, so maybe try an alternative for a while, that's all.. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I thought that was the point?

No, by using catbox, all instances just refer to catbox, which is the single host of the picture.

In the past, you would have a copy of pictures posted directly stored by every instance, consuming resources for every of them

You're the first one complaining, if there's someone else I'll reconsider!

[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago

In the past, you would have a copy of pictures posted directly stored by every instance, consuming resources for every of them

I don't think that's been the case for quite some time. As a test, what is the link for this image in my comment? It should be blahaj's pictrs instance:

(it'll either show as lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs or pictrs.blahaj.zone)