The popular Reddit alternative's user count has grown a lot over the past year. One problem, though: users and admins can't delete images.
  • GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Another issue is that image storage is a huge resource burden, to the point where instance admins will simply purge images periodically to keep their database at a reasonable size. It seems like every time I look at Lemmy posts older than a couple months, the images are broken.

    I’m not convinced image support should be built into Lemmy in the first place. Back on Reddit, people relied on external image hosts like imgur for many years, and those worked a lot better than the image system Reddit eventually built in (which is covered in wall-to-wall anti-features like the inability to load a goddamn image directly).

    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 months ago

      We saw what happend with that when imgur and a gif hoster (forgot the name) decided that the free loaders are occupying too much space.

      Suddenly the archival troops backed several TBs from imgur.

    • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I agree with this. Also Lemmy likes to reformat images when you upload them. Its stupid. I have to hotlink from elsewhere anyway so yeah removing it makes more sense.

      It would also help reduce the proliferation of things like CSAM thus reducing admin overhead.

  • Dark Arc@social.packetloss.ggEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I would personally love it if apps would allow images on posts that have been flagged to appear blurred prior to admin review, or just to have a blur applied to all images unless you hover over it/hold your finger on the image.

    I know I saw one vulgar troll post that I could’ve lived life without ever seeing.

  • PonyOfWar@pawb.social
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    3 months ago

    The lemmy devs should really focus on proper content deletion tools. It’s not just the images, it’s very strange and inconsistent overall. When I delete a comment, it’s seemingly still visible to many people and collecting up/downvotes even many hours after I deleted it. On the other hand, when a post gets deleted, it’s completely gone, to the point that I can’t even look up the discussion that I had within that post, just my own comments on my profile.

    • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      3 months ago

      It’s always only had a handful of real devs dedicating time to it. A whole site like this is kind of a huge undertaking, especially when you’re deciding to build it from the ground up in a modern language like Rust, and on top of a relatively new API set, ActivityPub.

      Even from early on, I remember lots of discussion from people with database management credentials who were basically pounding their heads going “why are you guys doing it this backwards way?” I don’t follow the development super closely so I don’t know if those issues were resolved or not. I just remember a lot of discussion on it when I was first on Lemmy on a different instance.

      Anyway, the short point of what I’m saying is they probably have a plan that makes sense to them, but without more external poking on certain things, they will work on what they think is important first, which may not always line up with what the community thinks is important.

      Once again, it’s a handful of folks doing front-end-dev, back-end-dev, database management and admining a very large instance.

      • alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgM
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        3 months ago

        I don’t follow the development super closely so I don’t know if those issues were resolved or not. I just remember a lot of discussion on it when I was first on Lemmy on a different instance.

        not that i’m aware of, and fixing a database schema once it’s already in place tends to be a clusterfuck so i’m very skeptical it will get better any time soon