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By default Lemmy seems to be mirroring every link's preview image. Even when that link was originally posted on an external Lemmy instance. That can put quite a strain on small servers. Is there a way to disable this? Ideally I would have pict-rs just be used to host the images my users upload and nothing else.

Solved:

Add

  pictrs: {
    image_mode: "None"
  }

to lemmy.hjson.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 14 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

is the default thumbnails?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

the default appears to be StoreLinkPreviews in v0.19.8

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/0.19.8/crates/utils/src/settings/structs.rs#L85-L88

but in the main branch it's ProxyAllImages, so I guess that'll be for a future release

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/main/crates/utils/src/settings/structs.rs#L74-L77

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Great! Thanks!

Now I just have to somehow prune the old images...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I think there's a guide for that somewhere? Maybe I can try looking for it tomorrow if no one else finds it first. I think the admin control panel that shows uploaded images might also show the federated ones?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe pictrs does it by itself. It's still working like crazy after I did the change without any user-uploads happening.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

this might help https://monero.town/post/2020876

I guess you could call GET /internal/hashes?{query} to see all the images

[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

There was a post on [email protected] recently about pictures management, maybe that can help

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

For anyone curious, I think that is the post: https://lemm.ee/post/53212164

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago

Indeed, thanks!