Ghostalmedia comments on PSA: You can't delete photos uploaded to Lemmy. So don't (accidentally) upload a nude

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[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 66 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Often just nuking all image uploads made during a certain time period. Which is why old image threads in Lemmy have time periods littered with broken images.

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[–] QuaternionsRock@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I don’t understand why Lemmy needs to have a built-in image server at all. Reddit didn’t have one for the longest time and it was fine. Sure, I don’t think anyone would be particularly happy with going back to Imgur etc., but it doesn’t seem worth the trouble.

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[–] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 9 points 2 years ago

It's a trade off for us.

You risk CSAM, and have to shoulder the storage costs.

But you also help to reduce link rot, as the images are kept on the site, rather than an external image host that might explode/go VC one day.

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