So now that Lemmy and the community overall are getting a lot of attention, with /c/memes being one of the biggest communities across instances, I think we should be a bit more strict about certain things.
I’d like your opinion, though. What do you think about a rule about only allowing images, and that such images need to be uploaded to Lemmy instead of linking to something like Imgur. I think that text and videos are a better fit for some other community (at least until we get something where we are able to play videos within Lemmy).
images need to be uploaded to Lemmy instead of linking to something like Imgur
Not a good idea, sites like Imgur allows lemmy to not store the data, which takes up a huge amount of space, accross all instances. It’s better to have image on the instance, yes, but after a bit of work, the lemmy’s devs can show external images inline, just like on reddit.
Not exactly true, unlike Mastodon I believe only the original instance stores the photo. Even when browsing a remote instance, you’re loading from their server.
Imgur sucks but I do agree that the images should probably be uploaded to a different site
I agree with all of this, as long as video will be allowed once there is a useable player for it.
Sound good. You remember the time, where “meme” only applied to images? I do. I miss those times ;)
I remember when “meme” meant something that reflected information or behavior that had self-propogated to a degree that it entered the zeitgeist. Now it’s pretty much any picture that someone thinks is humorous, even if they made it themselves ten minutes ago. Something used to become memetic as a community function; now there’s people who sit around and try to come up with new “memes” by themselves, even as a way to make a living. Kind of like giving yourself a nickname, lol.
That could just have been an image in the comment.
I’ll count this as your first rule violation.
Unless you’re hosting the storage, it would be wise to contact whoever does host your instance and make sure they don’t have a problem with mandating direct uploads.
But, on this end, it isn’t necessary. It’s easy enough to click through if it doesn’t show directly.
I don’t know if I like the idea of forcing the image to be hosted on lemmy.ml. I think its good to spread out the data in the event 1 goes down? You may end up with a graveyard of broken links
Instead of Imgur, a good and private alternative, I think cceptable for Lemmy, is vgy.me, I use it in ShareX as image sharing. I prefer an extern host, I think it’s better for the one which put the Lemmy server to host the images. https://vgy.me
i think it’d be a good thing
