• Th4tGuyII@kbin.social
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      Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should. The individual hosts of the Fediverse are limited on space, and jamming that limited space full of images, rather than using an external image hosting service, is worse for the sustainability of these spaces

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        In addition, help out your instance admins by resizing the image if you don’t need it in high resolution.

        Uploading a 250Kb file rather than a 2.5MB one makes a difference when thousands of users are doing it.

        • LollerCorleone@kbin.socialOP
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          Because pretty much all instances are being run by volunteers and hobbyists, and not a for-profit who is profiting from your content. This is just something nice to do for reducing the resources they require to run the service.

    • genoxidedev1@kbin.social
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      Uploading directly uses server resources which are voluntarily provided, that’s why using external providers and just posting links instead is usually better.