Depends on the instance, some are well-prepared and can expand storage depending on the traffic, so I think they’ll be fine. People are already posting a lot of images, but it is a good idea to try and link to other sources rather than stress the servers.
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I’ve been uploading to Imgur still. Not a perfect solution, but I feel like it’s better than blowing up the Lemmy instances.
In the future we’ll have flying cars and images will be stored long-term as Dall-E prompts, and will be generated on demand. Future archeologists will never know why people posted so many pictures of cats with weird limbs
AI compression? Yeah, probably
Flying cars? Not a chance
In a perfect world Pixelfed would be tightly integrated with Lemmy and Mastodon. Pixelfed is the Fediverse’s image sharing platform.
I tried posting a picture from Pixelfed to Mastodon several months ago and it was not integrated at all. I went back to uploading directly to Mastodon.
But what does that solve? That only puts the burden of paying for storage and bandwidth on the pixelfed instances.
