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So lemmy.world lets you just copypaste images directly from your snipping tool and hosts them on lemmy.world/pictrs
Kbin sadly does not do this, no idea if other lemmy instances do this
example1
AFAIK this is for all instances but it’ll be better to host images in a dedicated service to not overload lemmy servers
It’s understandable. Image hosting bloats costs quite a bit. It also introduces new issues with the law as the server admin can’t allow illegal pictures on it. Offloading that onto a separate image host removes both issues with only minor downsides.
I’d much rather kbin focus on long-term posting stability than worry about image hosting. If it gets big, then we can think about it. Reddit went without image hosting for years though.
kbinners can upload pictures, we just can’t Ctrl+V images as a quick way of uploading