Dusty

joined 1 year ago
[–] Dusty@lemmy.dustybeer.com 24 points 1 year ago (6 children)

This is nothing more than an opinion piece with bad takes.

What a bullshit article.

That's 99% of what gets posted to medium.com

[–] Dusty@lemmy.dustybeer.com 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have been using Brave browser with the crypto stuff disabled.

The mere fact that you have to "disable the crypto stuff" tells me all I nee to know about Brave Browser, and it's enough to ensure I'll never install it.

[–] Dusty@lemmy.dustybeer.com 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My personal subs that have been private for ages recieved messages saying they will inform me of "further steps" if I refuse to open them up.

One of them is /r/[myRedditUsername] that I use as a kind of scratch pad that I can access anywhere (I've since self hosted a wiki) that they are demanding I open up. Like seriously, no one would ever be interested in whatever is there.

They can get fucked. I deleted all of the posts and comments on all of my accounts and requested GDPR requests on all of them. reddit can get fucked.

 

I have searched and not come up with the solution, I apologize if it's obvious and I have somehow missed it.

I would like to disable uploading images on my instance, and more importantly, disable the caching of images from other instances onto my server.

It's run on a tiny server, and I simply cannot afford a larger server to deal people uploading large images on instances I'm federated to being cached onto my server.

For an example, this post https://lemmy.ml/post/1450558 was federated to my server and the image was cached on my server automatically (https://lemmy.dustybeer.com/pictrs/image/19336064-e45f-4abf-b5c2-0ce7b69a1b7c.jpeg?format=webp)

It's not a big deal for a couple of images, but I can very quickly see this exploding and using up all of my (relatively tiny) disk space.

It also seems like a great vector for a malicious party to bring down an instance they don't like if they know it's caching images.

Again I apologize if I've just missed this in the docs and my searching, but any suggestions would be appreciated.

[–] Dusty@lemmy.dustybeer.com 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just wanted to add, in the official lemmy documentation they say to use a third party as well, not the instance itself.

https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/02-media.html?highlight=images#images-and-video

Note that this functionality is not meant to share large images or videos, because that would require too many server resources. Instead, upload them on another platform like PeerTube or Pixelfed, and share the link on Lemmy.

This also served as a good reminder to look into disabling image uploads on my instance. I can't afford a massive server for it to host other peoples images which is both size and resource intensive.

[–] Dusty@lemmy.dustybeer.com 4 points 1 year ago (9 children)

But then, if anything happened to that service (downtime, billing, ending of free services, etc etc), the images could be lost.

If anything happens to the instance you are uploading them to, they'll be gone as well.

My personal opinion is it's much better to offload images into a service meant for images. A lot of lemmy instances are put on very small servers, with very small resources (including drive space). It's not fair to the owners of those instances to upload a bunch of large images to them.

There are plenty of options out there for image hosting. https://imgbb.com/ or https://imgbox.com/ seem to be highly recommended.

[–] Dusty@lemmy.dustybeer.com 1 points 1 year ago

I'll give you that one. Speaking of which, I should watch it again, I haven't done so this year yet.

[–] Dusty@lemmy.dustybeer.com 7 points 1 year ago

I give ~$15/month total to a couple of creators I really enjoy. They put a lot of hard work into their videos for a relatively niche subject, and it's not much to me. It helps them a little so I don't mind doing it.

[–] Dusty@lemmy.dustybeer.com 2 points 1 year ago

They aren't third party. They are buying Google Domains and all of the customers that come with it. If you don't like it, don't continue to use them. It happens every time a company gets bought out, the customers are part of that package.

[–] Dusty@lemmy.dustybeer.com 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is this different from voyager.lemmy.ml? If so how, and why should I join another instance instead of continuing to use that one?

[–] Dusty@lemmy.dustybeer.com 32 points 1 year ago

Why is this posted to Technology? This has nothing to do with Technology, and belongs in one of the many reddit threads or communities that already exist.

[–] Dusty@lemmy.dustybeer.com 10 points 1 year ago

I just got a threat from them on one of the subs I moderate that is private and has been for years. It included this gem:

If this community remains private, we will reach out soon with information on what next steps will take place.

We already know what their "next steps" are. It will be interesting to see if they ban my account as well. I've already nuked all of my comments and posts. Fuck them.

[–] Dusty@lemmy.dustybeer.com 19 points 1 year ago (16 children)

90-plus percent of Reddit users are on our platform, contributing, and are monetized either through ads or Reddit Premium

I wonder how many of those reddit premium members have cancelled their subscriptions. I know I did. I had premium for years as it seemed like a good way to give a little bit back to a site I was using multiple times a day, every day. As soon as Spez started his bullshit I cancelled it and won't be back.

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