Hey, not your fault, its a bug in the software and i just have to manage it from my side to try and keep the instance as stable as possible. Fingers crossed its resolved quickly by the devs :)

Deleting probably wouldn't help (instances would need to fetch those comments again I think!) But really the bug shouldn't change how you interact with the fediverse, just something we have to temporarily work around!

+1 to everything you've said (as someone running lemmy + piefed instances)!

I feel really lucky in the admin team and the support from many of our users too, but I can absolutely see where sunaurus came from and why he dropped it.

I am one of those people who has issues with catbox.moe too unfortunately. And now imgur with the UK block 🙄

More than happy for you to upload directly ☺️

Image storage is relatively cheap, so if you want to upload directly that's fine with me 😊

Here's a picture of a cat!

(I will fix the backblaze url eventually)