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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).

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[–] Semmelstulle@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

I agree with all of this, as long as video will be allowed once there is a useable player for it.

[–] vapeloki@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Sound good. You remember the time, where "meme" only applied to images? I do. I miss those times ;)

[–] Dick_Justice@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.

[–] ojmcelderry@lemmy.one 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] _cnt0@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago

That could just have been an image in the comment.

I'll count this as your first rule violation.

[–] Krafting@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] autumn@reddthat.com 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think it's cached on federating servers - that's why copies of beehaw communities still exist on lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works despite defederating

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 1 points 2 years ago

The posts are cached, like the text and comments. The images aren't AFAIK. The links to the images are also cached, and BeeHaw can't tell what instance is accessing them, it just sees a request from each user's computer for the image.

[–] TofuSauce@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

i think it'd be a good thing