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An external image showing your user-agent and the total "hit count"

  • @[email protected]
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    352 years ago

    Salient demonstration, but if image proxying were to come to Lemmy I’d hope it was made optional, as it could overburden smaller instances, especially one-person instances (like mine). We also need a simple integrated way of configuring object storage.

    • Skull giver
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      142 years ago

      It would also introduce some nasty side effects. Imagine someone posting CSAM in memes@ and having that shit replicated across thousands of servers.

      Mastodon does this and I can’t say I’m a big fan of that approach to be honest.

    • @[email protected]
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      32 years ago

      A better solution could be having an image proxy as a separate service, and somehow managing a list of proxies that are used for loading the image. Of course the clients themselves would have to deal with choosing to use the proxy… except if the backend serves the proxied image URL instead of the original one (and maybe that too under a new name)