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Now that the old Hexbear fork has been officially abandoned, this community will be used as a space for meta-discussion on the site itself.

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removed externally hosted image (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've noticed any time I try to share a picture with your instance it is filtered and replaced with *removed externally hosted image*. Seems a fairly stifling design choice, if federation is gonna be successful. Why won't you let me love you?

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

AFAIK we have that enabled because there are tons of exploits that can happen when an image is loaded, namely IP Grabbing. Hopefully one day there'll be a built in function on Lemmy that allows images to be scraped and re-hosted on Hexbear so we don't have to think about its

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I get that. Unfortunately it breaks a large piece of functionality. Any time I try to share a local picture, it's going to by default be uploaded to my home instance.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I guess upload to imgur and hyperlink for now?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I appreciate the suggestion. However imgur is gonna try to scrape 10x the info from anyone that visits that link, than allowing an inline image from my home instance. And I can't be that monster.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Argh how frustrating!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This would be preferable.