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Well, most admins I see disagree on that
If lemmy has a feature to attach images then we should use that. If it's not working efficiently then it should be fixed instead of building a culture where people are afraid to upload an image.
Video I can understand but we shouldn't be so stingy as to say don't upload images.
People have been using Imgur on Reddit for years, I don't see how using catmoe is different here. Don't forget that content is sent to every federated instance, that can fill up very quick once we get more users
Imgur was owned by reddit and made for the purpose of hosting content for reddit. You couldn't attach images directly in the old reddit.
Alan Schaaf created Imgur while he was at uni and he never worked for Reddit, but I believe it was made for Reddit primarily (Reddit didn't support uploading images until 2016).
Every bit helps, I'd imagine.