Sound good. You remember the time, where "meme" only applied to images? I do. I miss those times ;)
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.
I agree with all of this, as long as video will be allowed once there is a useable player for it.
Not sure if this is still the case, but I remember reading earlier that processing uploaded images was using some of the most resources on lemmy.ml's servers at one point. Given the strain and load on the server already, I don't think it would be a good idea to put even more on it by requiring images be uploaded directly
I'm neutral about only images and no videos part
Out of all image content, memes are hurt the least if they get downscaled to 400x400
Processing an image is a separate thing from serving images
I think storage costs need to be considered first. It could cause instances to be unable to support the costs of running due to storage and bandwidth fees.
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.
i think it'd be a good thing
Unless you're hosting the storage, it would be wise to contact whoever does host your instance and make sure they don't have a problem with mandating direct uploads.
But, on this end, it isn't necessary. It's easy enough to click through if it doesn't show directly.
note that when a user pastes an image on lemmy, it gets hosted on the user's home instance - not to the home instance of the community where they pasted it.