Comment on How will we deal with all the broken images?

Goretantath@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• kersploosh@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • Kirk@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s also an avenue for attacks.

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• Irelephant@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Not really, it means I can’t send every lemmy instance csam.

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  • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • hendrik@palaver.p3x.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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      • Goten@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        i heard its a problem, but never saw any. (im not saying its a lie)

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    • Irelephant@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Mastodon purges them after a while though.

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