Mastodon purges them after a while though.
Comment on How will we deal with all the broken images?
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days agono, 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.
Irelephant@lemm.ee 2 days ago
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)
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 2 days ago
Same, same. I can't verify it and I peobably don't want to. But I had people assure to me it happened.
scytale@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
That’s credit towards the admins who acted quickly. That’s why you’ll see instances defederate from an instance if their admin is not active and doesn’t take action against illegal content in a reasonable time, because it can quickly get out of hand. Now if content isn’t proxied and is always mirrored, not only will the admin have to defederate from the problem instance, but they will have to go and clean up whatever was copied on their instance as well.