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[–] hsl@wayfarershaven.eu 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's not just the mods but the admins going to lengths to keep their instances clean. The awfulness outlined in that post means I'm not sure I should keep hosting my own instance.

[–] d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Indeed, it's not really a good idea to run your own instance if you're not prepared to deal with such content. Many small instance admins have shutdown their instances for this very reason.

There was a patch merged recently which disabled caching of federated images, but I believe it still needs some work. Some discussion around that over here: https://sh.itjust.works/post/3962112 including an interesting comment suggesting rerouting /pictrs/ path to 404, so nginx won’t serve any images.

[–] Helix@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Don't, software is shit and you're not prepared for what you'll see and how much time you need to sink into that project.