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I want to say image uploads were disabled due to some a-holes uploading CSAM and not having any other surefire way to protect against it. Like if you’re in a comment editor you could upload an image, save the URL, and cancel the comment. The image is then hosted on the Lemmy instance and reachable via the URL you saved, but it’s not actually accessible from any post or comment. Not sure if there’s any capability in Lemmy to automatically identify and remove uploaded images that aren’t referenced by a post/comment/profile. But even then there would be a time window where the image is stored on the server.
Yes, I believe those images are removable easily. I am pretty sure I’ve read somewhere about purging such orphaned images, but I am not sure where that was.
Except in some countries (I believe the US included) you are not supposed to delete them, since the law says you should quarantine them (i.e. remove them from the platform, but keep them as evidence somewhere else as evidence) and call the police. Then they would be in the middle of a CSAM investigation, which would be really disruptive if there isn’t a relatively big team behind the service. And then it would require handing a bunch of user data to the police, which is a deal breaker for lots of users. I don’t blame admins that are running the instances on a volunteer basis for not wanting to deal with all that.
Yeah it would be foolish not have something like that. Would be a pretty easy DDoS opportunity otherwise. Even with rate limiting you could fill up the disk space.
Thank you
The images you upload are linked to your account’s instance.
So maybe you want to consider other instance to upload pictures?
Thanks I will try
This is more of a support question, related to using Lemmy. Please see the sidebar for a list of communities that offer support. Removing under rule #3.