Comment on Imgur and Mastodon ?
adam@doomscroll.n8e.dev 10 months ago
Mastodon doesn’t just use storage for local image uploads. It pulls, thumbnails and saves images from any incoming posts, including the thumbnails you might see on website links (pulled from the opengraph data most websites implement)
It’s possible to set a pretty short timeout for that data though.
blacknails@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Just to validate my thoughts. Could the server, fetch the remote image, duplicate it onto a hosting service, grab the link, and replace the “pulled” image’s post with the hosted link ?
I guess it could if you knew how to program that. But I’m wondering what is wrong with the idea that I’m not thinking about.