sunaurus

sunaurus, 9 months ago

Yes, my goal is to submit PRs to the main Lemmy repo with all of these changes

sunaurus, 9 months ago

This should do the trick: github.com/…/c74b92e5fd3b6e4b815cb76768bb8b042784…

(I am fairly certain that this is the only way external post images get saved locally, but if I find additional ways later, I will update this comment)

sunaurus, 9 months ago

I think you make a fair point, but Lemmy has one major strength that lobste.rs does not have here: Lemmy is federated, so you can split up your social graph between multiple instances, or as many people do, you can even host your own instance just for your own inner circle.

sunaurus, 9 months ago

@TWeaK is correct, I am only deleting our copies of images which are already hosted on other instances.

As for imgur (or any other external image host), such images have always worked on lemm.ee. For example, this is hosted on imgur:

pac-man

In addition to using external images in comments, you are also able to submit posts with imgur images, and they will get embedded directly into the Lemmy UI.

sunaurus, 9 months ago

Yep, I’ve already tested it and it’s one of the options I am considering implementing for lemm.ee as well.

sunaurus, 9 months ago

I agree that users should be able to join Lemmy freely, but I think it makes a lot of sense to try and spread users out more between instances - this spreads out the responsibilities between more admins, spreads out the load between more servers and also reduces the chance of a single point of failure for the whole system.

It’s clear that there are seriously vile people out there who want to cause huge amounts of damage to Lemmy, and if we have unlimited growth in a few selected instances, then these people only have to target those specific instances for maximum damage.

In a perfect world, none of this would be necessary, but then again, in a perfect world, we wouldn’t need a decentralized platform in the first place.

sunaurus, 9 months ago

To be clear, only image uploads to lemm.ee are disabled, posting images which are hosted externally is still enabled.

sunaurus, 9 months ago

The Lemmy.world team is getting some authorities involved already for this particular case. I am definitely in favor of notifying law enforcement or revelant organizations, and if anybody tries to use lemm.ee to spread such things, I will definitely be involving my local authorities as well.

sunaurus, 9 months ago

Cloudflare CSAM protection is not available outside of the US, unfortunately.