What is a feasibility to implement IPFS for lemmys image hosting? (szmer.info)

submitted 1 year ago by Ludrol@szmer.info to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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We have a bunch of instances hosting basically the same images multiple times. Using IPFS we could increase the availability of images for users with almost no cost to instances. I have heard rumors that pict-rs can't be easily scaled up due file system based storage and would need a rewrite.

I think Fediverse is major thing where using IPFS on the decentralized network makes sense.

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[-] ShittyKopper@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago

i don't actually think lemmy uses pict-rs's caching functionality. afaik it uploads remote images just like it does local ones. that's for if you want to use it stand-alone as the imgur clone it was intended to be (and not what lemmy shoehorned it into)