• LollerCorleone@kbin.socialOP
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    1 year ago

    Images could eat up the server resources of your instance. Using a third-party service reduces the burden on them.

    Anything that you don’t host yourself are vulnerable to takedowns. But as someone who has been using postimages.org for many years now, I have never had any such issue with them, and haven’t heard of anyone else facing them as well. The other three services I linked also have a good reputation as reliable services.

    • Wander@yiffit.net
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      1 year ago

      As an instance admin I gladly host user files.

      One thing to take into account is that images posted by an instanceA user on an instanceB community will still be hosted on instance A.

      So as long as an instance doesn’t host more users than it can handle it should be fine.

    • Kayn@dormi.zone
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      1 year ago

      A downside to hosting images externally is that these image hosts can go down before the Lemmy instance does, leaving many posts without context. One should keep this in mind when choosing where to upload their images.