Comment on How will we deal with all the broken images?
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 6 days agoI 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.
Comment on How will we deal with all the broken images?
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 6 days agoI 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 6 days ago
i heard its a problem, but never saw any. (im not saying its a lie)
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 6 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 6 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.
Goten@piefed.social 6 days ago
i hope you dont thats the only reason for defederation.
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 6 days ago
I can't remember the exact details, but I believe the attackers also targeted instances? So it's not just that it happens with certain problematic instances, but everyone could have that uploaded to their media storage. And it can come from arbitrary places. I believe that adds to the problem. And it kind of requires to shut these things down for everyone. Or at least everyone except a few excellent hand-picked instances who cooperate, and the moderation tools actually work.
Yes, they've done an excellent job. I just wish they wouldn't have to deal with these things.