Selfhosting lemmy with no pictrs
Selfhosting lemmy with no pictrs
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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Pictrs should have been an optional microservice by default. Commenting here to keep track of this thread since this is useful.
I agree! Or let us disable caching images from other instances. I'm not interested at all in rehosting images that other users on other instances upload. That's too much of a legal liability to me.
Same thinking here. Caching media pretty directly undermines any Safe Harbor protections you have running a site, not to mention the resource overhead required.
My primary consideration is all the expensive storage filled up by vapid image macros. 80 GB goes a long way for just text.
For now, you can just route
/pictrs/path to 404 so nginx won't serve any image from pictrs:location ^~ /pictrs/ { return 404; }Yes! This worked! Thank you!
Wants to remove pictures from his own Lemmy, asks for help with that via picture on Lemmy
I actually thought of that. And it's even hosted on sh.itjust.works via pictrs.
Yeah it's been obvious and foreseeable that normal admins won't have the bandwidth to handle takedown requests and cp spam attacks. Sadly the only stable state I see for the fediverse is relying on centralized content hosts that can handle those problems. Well, maybe until AI can do it
Wouldn't you only really need one(or a few) instance that could do the work and flag things for everyone?
Yeah I've envisioned sharable block lists that you can subscribe to similar to pihole. That'd be great
It sucks there's no way to make use of the current csam blocklists except possibly if you're a big enough instance since you can't get access without approval. Instances going through cloudflare that use the cloudflare caching can use it through them but it only works on images it's serving so wouldn't block them being uploaded, just served to other instances.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters DNS Domain Name Service/System HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web PiHole Network-wide ad-blocker (DNS sinkhole) SSD Solid State Drive mass storage nginx Popular HTTP server
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You could just set the upload limit to 1kb?
The caching is probably the problem, not the uploads on a personal lemmy instance.
I wrote a patch for Lemmy a week or so ago if you want to skip the caching: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3897
I wonder if you instead of disabling Pictrs you could just block image uploads to your Lemmy site, or maybe use a PiHole or Adguard on your network to block them.
But then I wouldn't be able to see photos on my instance. I want to see them, I just don't want the federated cache being saved on my SSD.
Hmmm... I do not have Pictrs because I am using the Yunohost Lemmy package, so there are no images on my instance, but I can still see images while logged into my instance.
Have you tried checking the logs of the lemmy container?