this post was submitted on 10 Feb 2025
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I Took A Picture

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Welcome to /c/ITAP, a place to share any photos you may have taken or seen that you think others would enjoy! It does not need to be OC, it just needs to be a photo that you think is beautiful and worth sharing.

Rule 1: No bigotry or discrimination.

Rule 2: No photos of politicians or political rallies.

Rule 3: Keep it civil.

Rule 4: NSFW posts are allowed provided they're marked as such.

Rule 5: AI generated art isn't allowed but a low level of digital touching/enhancing is fine


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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Finally some fucking OC. I love it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Agreed. I'd rather this comm be dead than be full of random non-OC. I mean, I get it, it's a chicken and egg problem. No one's going to use the comm if no one uses the comm. It needs content so people even see it in their feed, but I'd honestly rather it be full of average OC than professional images from the web. It totally defeats the point of "I took a picture". Stamets could have just posted a bunch of average OC instead of 5-star web images until it picked up. I dunno. Just my two cents.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I thought this place was all OC? Anyway, that's all I'll post, OC only.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

From the name one would think, but no.

From the sidebar:

Welcome to /c/ITAP, a place to share any photos you may have taken or seen that you think others would enjoy! It does not need to be OC, it just needs to be a photo that you think is beautiful and worth sharing.

Isn't that what /c/pics is for?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Pretty!

Just so you know, Lemmy can host images directly. It's a lot nicer than having to go to a third party site to view them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I use Imagus on Firefox (also on Chrome). I point at pictures and they pop up, full res.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

I use the Thunder app on Android to browse Lemmy, and a lot of other people use apps, too. Your post doesn't even get a thumbnail, so we don't know what we're going to see until we click it, and it requires us to view the link in a webview that takes significantly longer to load, and imgur is kinda ugly. Meanwhile, Lemmy hosted images are downloaded and cached automatically and load almost instantly when tapped.

Just my thoughts. Using the built-in image hosting is free, and has benefits for Lemmy users.