I’ve noticed any time I try to share a picture with your instance it is filtered and replaced with *removed externally hosted image*. Seems a fairly stifling design choice, if federation is gonna be successful. Why won’t you let me love you?
AFAIK we have that enabled because there are tons of exploits that can happen when an image is loaded, namely IP Grabbing. Hopefully one day there’ll be a built in function on Lemmy that allows images to be scraped and re-hosted on Hexbear so we don’t have to think about its
I get that. Unfortunately it breaks a large piece of functionality. Any time I try to share a local picture, it’s going to by default be uploaded to my home instance.
I appreciate the suggestion. However imgur is gonna try to scrape 10x the info from anyone that visits that link, than allowing an inline image from my home instance. And I can’t be that monster.
