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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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[-] Die4Ever@programming.dev 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] dandroid@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago

Awesome! Thank you for this link!

[-] nick@campfyre.nickwebster.dev 12 points 1 year ago

Just a note that my PR there doesn't disable pictrs for your own instance's users. It just disables the caching of remote content.

[-] dandroid@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago

That's fine with me, as I'm the only user in my instance.

Though I do still think this is a huge miss on pictrs to not allow the admin to browse the photos stored on their own server. I mean, someone could upload an illegal photo, not post it, then send the URL that only they could possibly know to whichever relevant government agency anonymously and potentially ruin the life of the admin.

Thank you so much for contributing and making this much needed fix.

[-] iamroot@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 year ago
[-] dandroid@dandroid.app 5 points 1 year ago

This is a good start, but I think there also needs to be a way to browse all the images stored and shred them.

[-] d_ohlin@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Great! This is awesome thank you so much!!

this post was submitted on 29 Aug 2023
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