Yeah genuinely we could all be hosting images for free or cheap on several image sites. Even NSFW images and videos! And it would save our instance admins a lot of headaches and probably some cost too.
Comment on lemm.ee plans for mitigating image upload abuse
PlasmaDistortion@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Personally I say just leave hosting of images to dedicated sites for that purpose. Your efforts are better left to dealing with how to render them. That being said, I use to be in charge of managing abuse on a site that has an average of 20 million posts a month (seriously).
The way I essentially defeated these kinds of attacks was with an image scanning service. It scans for anything NSFW and blocks it. Sometimes things would make it through but once an admin flagged it we could use that to block the users IP and account. It’s not cheap but the volume is also not huge yet for lemm.ee so it might not be too bad.
Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Personally I say just leave hosting of images to dedicated sites for that purpose.
They aren’t profitable, so they’ll eventually go down. If no one is looking at their site, why keep it going just to serve other sights?
neal33@lemm.ee 1 year ago
The same can be said about Lemmy.
JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
But if the instance goes down, no one will care that the images in the posts are also gone.
TWeaK@lemm.ee 1 year ago
This is my opinion also. Reddit turned to shit around the time they started self-hosting. Imgur only exists because people needed a place to host reddit images.