• Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Often just nuking all image uploads made during a certain time period. Which is why old image threads in Lemmy have time periods littered with broken images.

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      8 months ago

      I don’t understand why Lemmy needs to have a built-in image server at all. Reddit didn’t have one for the longest time and it was fine. Sure, I don’t think anyone would be particularly happy with going back to Imgur etc., but it doesn’t seem worth the trouble.

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        8 months ago

        It’s a trade off for us.

        You risk CSAM, and have to shoulder the storage costs.

        But you also help to reduce link rot, as the images are kept on the site, rather than an external image host that might explode/go VC one day.

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        8 months ago

        Some instances do just disable the image server part (I think lemm.ee used to and still only allows small images?)

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        8 months ago

        I mean I don’t know why we need images at all, this stuff worked fine when it was just a BBS

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        8 months ago

        They definitely should remove it, at least until moderation tools are available.