Not really, it means I can’t send every lemmy instance csam.
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Goretantath@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Images dont get saved locally on other instances if they host the content? Well that seems like a big flaw in “federation”…
Irelephant@lemm.ee 2 days ago
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
no, I agree with the above user that it would be better to federate images too, for at least the following reasons:
- redundancy: see the OP
- privacy reasons: images loaded from other instances inform the other instance that one is viewing those images, do you trust all of them?
- censorship reasons: some lemmy instances are blocked in my workplace and I can never look at images from them when browsing at work; others may be blocked in entire countries
If I’m not mistaken, Mastodon already does federate images to other instances, so it isn’t unheard of.
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 2 days ago
I think they would need to find a way to address the problem first. Reportedly, these images have been a huge problem here on Lemmy. Several times now.
Goten@piefed.social 2 days ago
i heard its a problem, but never saw any. (im not saying its a lie)
Irelephant@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Mastodon purges them after a while though.
kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
I assume it’s an intentional trade-off by the devs to reduce the storage burden. If each instance is a complete mirror of all federated instances then hosting becomes that much more expensive.
Kirk@startrek.website 2 days ago
It’s also an avenue for attacks.