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Selfhosting lemmy with no pictrs (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by dandroid to c/[email protected]

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Hi all. Due to the news of the illegal images being hosted on lemmy, I shut down my instance. I read some comments from people stating that they were able to selfhost lemmy without pictrs, they just can't upload or cache photos. I think this is what I am interested in doing at this time.

I tried commenting out the pictrs section of my docker-compose.yml and removed the "depends on pictrs" sections. However, I get the error message in the attached screenshot when I go to my page.

Does anyone have any info on how to selfhost lemmy with image hosting completely disabled?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don’t understand why lemmy caches photos in the first place? Like surely it’s quicker, easier, and lower bandwidth to just store a url to the original source.

[–] 0xc0ba17 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lower bandwidth for who? When images are cached on other instances, it allows two things:

Load sharing. The original instance doesn't have to serve the whole fediverse, but only its own users + 1 request per other lemmy instance.
Data availability through redundancy. If the original instance goes down, the cached image is still viewable on other instances.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Bandwidth was the wrong choice of words. Storage space is more what I meant.