To offload the storage requirements of the instance you’re posting in. If everyone starts uploading images directly in the comment, the server HDD/SDD will be overloaded. Consider using a third party service and posting the link from there instead!

No, haha. They also didn’t bother to check what was stolen, so they could have very well gotten 80G of memes.

Ah, I see what you mean! I thought that the content was not being retrieved quickly. Might be something wrong in the app, as phil just mentioned. For me, it works well on EMUI 12.

One of the devs answered above

It might be the server you’re using. For example, lemmy.ml has been completely down for me. Switching to another account on different server made the app work instantly 🤔