Yeah genuinely we could all be hosting images for free or cheap on several image sites. Even NSFW images and videos! And it would save our instance admins a lot of headaches and probably some cost too.
Comment on lemm.ee plans for mitigating image upload abuse
PlasmaDistortion@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Personally I say just leave hosting of images to dedicated sites for that purpose. Your efforts are better left to dealing with how to render them. That being said, I use to be in charge of managing abuse on a site that has an average of 20 million posts a month (seriously).
The way I essentially defeated these kinds of attacks was with an image scanning service. It scans for anything NSFW and blocks it. Sometimes things would make it through but once an admin flagged it we could use that to block the users IP and account. It’s not cheap but the volume is also not huge yet for lemm.ee so it might not be too bad.
Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Personally I say just leave hosting of images to dedicated sites for that purpose.
They aren’t profitable, so they’ll eventually go down. If no one is looking at their site, why keep it going just to serve other sights?
neal33@lemm.ee 8 months ago
The same can be said about Lemmy.
JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
But if the instance goes down, no one will care that the images in the posts are also gone.
TWeaK@lemm.ee 8 months ago
This is my opinion also. Reddit turned to shit around the time they started self-hosting. Imgur only exists because people needed a place to host reddit images.
Pacers31Colts18@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Is there a fediverse instance of Imgur?
TWeaK@lemm.ee 8 months ago
No, but there’s nothing stopping you from using direct links from imgur, in traditional fashion.
It’s a little bit convoluted, though. You have to post the image, then hover over and select “Get share links”, and then pick the image for BB code (forums). This has the [img] tags at the start and finish, but importantly it has the direct link to the image file. If you use this on lemmy then it will load in the instance, rather than directing to imgur itself.
JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Imgur is deleting images over a certain age posted anonymously. And they might continue to decrease the number of images they keep to try to be closer to profitability. So that will be bad for longevity of content.
nosurprises@lemm.ee 8 months ago
That solution sounds a bit too complicated.
Image
That produces
https://i.imgur.com/4K8r2Bo.pngHubi@feddit.de 8 months ago
I’ve seen people link to uploads on Pixelfed, though this is probably not the intended use case.
Bongles@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Not yet but I wish there was. I use imgur quite a lot and I like the idea of a fediverse version. Especially with the direction they’ve gone lately.