3d ago

Stop Lemmy from mirroring link images

By default Lemmy seems to be mirroring every link's preview image. Even when that link was originally posted on an external Lemmy instance. That can put quite a strain on small servers. Is there a way to disable this? Ideally I would have pict-rs just be used to host the images my users upload and nothing else.

Solved:

Add

 undefined

    
  pictrs: {
    image_mode: "None"
  }

to lemmy.hjson.

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See the config.hjson for image_mode
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/main/config/defaults.hjson#L25-L57
- Great! Thanks!
  Now I just have to somehow prune the old images...
  
  I think there's a guide for that somewhere? Maybe I can try looking for it tomorrow if no one else finds it first. I think the admin control panel that shows uploaded images might also show the federated ones?
- is the default thumbnails?
  
  the default appears to be StoreLinkPreviews in v0.19.8
  https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/0.19.8/crates/utils/src/settings/structs.rs#L85-L88
  but in the main branch it's ProxyAllImages, so I guess that'll be for a future release
  https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/main/crates/utils/src/settings/structs.rs#L74-L77

There was a post on !fedigrow@lemm.ee recently about pictures management, maybe that can help
- For anyone curious, I think that is the post: https://lemm.ee/post/53212164
  
  Indeed, thanks!

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