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As someone who is still hosting a forum, I would not suggest this. I have also tried to reduce footprint of the forum using external image hodting services and this has always ended up badly (images get lost as one hosting service changes policy and maybe disables direct linking or just closes it's doors, whatever).
This is one of the reasons why I'm not tempted to open up a lemmy server, even though my hosting plan allows 3 subdomains. Used space will rise quickly, even if it's just images... if videos are allowed as well, than all hell will break loose, even if they are processed and reduced in quality and resolution server side. I've seen it happen before, it's a nightmare to revert things afterwards (users complain), not to mention you can't revert the damage, that space is taken and that's that.
My estimate is that, if only images are allowed and images are processed in webp, it'll take about a week for a quite busy instance to reach the 1GB mark... probably a lot faster if it's an NSFW instance (a few days). Think about this from a migration perspective after 1 year - it will be a nightmare.