Comment on lemm.ee plans for mitigating image upload abuse
shootwhatsmyname@lemm.ee 10 months ago
It is now impossible to add an avatar or banner to profiles because the only way to do so through the UI is uploading to the instance. There’s no way to add an external URL. Just wanted to point that out in case it wasn’t intentional. Very understandable if that’s something we have to sacrifice for the time being.
lagomorphlecture@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Nor sure about links but avatars and banners were intentional because those would be images, and all image uploads are suspended for now.
Anonymousllama@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Might be useful to adjust the field themselves so instead of looking for a local image, they can pull in something from an external URL (hosted on imgur). That way at least avatars / banners will still work without the onus being on the server.
Hopefully they sort out all this stuff eventually
Draconic_NEO@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Would be easily doable, I was able to do it on my account here since the user settings config just contains a link to an image which can point at pictrs or at an external image hosted elsewhere so using the API (in my case using a third party app being built by my friend) you can replace avatars with externally hosted images, I made an issue on the lemmy-ui GitHub to hopefully get that feature integrated officially.
Draconic_NEO@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Unfortunately it’s a side effect of disabling uploads, it is possible to have externally hosted avatars (field is just a URL linking to the image) but isn’t officially supported by lemmy-ui yet, hopefully it can be in the future though, I made an issue for it on the GitHub to hopefully get it supported (linked in my other comment).