…image hosting is actually handled as an auxiliary service called pict-rs, which runs alongside a given Lemmy instance. While pict-rs itself works fine for handling uploads, downloads, and modifications to pictures, the devs neglected to add anything to Lemmy’s interface to handle deletions. In fact, the platform as a whole lacks any tooling for moderating images whatsoever.

If you can’t tell from the name it’s not going to work well.

A gaming instance would take a lot of load.

I remember Reddit days when 5k upvotes was off the charts.