Why are old embedded images showing up like this?

e0qdk, 7 months ago

It seems like most (all?) images embedded in posts more than about ~3 months old (not sure on exact cut off) are replaced with this image instead of the actual content. The image always seems to link to https://media.kbin.social/media/35/b4/35b47c291902b6bc8ae273715c6767dae1033fe267d7caf30b84168934ce0825.png

Is this a bug? Data loss on kbin's side? The images seem to still be available from the original source if I use the "Copy url to fediverse" link, generally.

Nawor3565, 7 months ago

Could it be that the instance purged it’s media in response to the CSAM incident not long ago?

e0qdk, 7 months ago

Hmm... plausible, but unfortunate if everything got nuked in a cleanup. I can't find any confirmation one way or the other though digging through kbinMeta. (Possible I missed an announcement or something though; there were a lot of threads a few months back.)