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?

  • LesbianLiberty [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    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

    • Dr. Wesker@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 year ago

      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.

        • Dr. Wesker@lemmy.sdf.org
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          1 year ago

          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.