Lemmy is still saving thumbnails and (previously) sometimes the whole image! The majority of image issues have been cleared up in my opinion and it works very well. Nearly all of our hosts allow hotlinking as it’s basically required for our use cases.

Lemmy also knows when the image is another Lemmy instance (through “magic”, or just cross posting). So if you upload once and then use that same link on all other posts then that would still be the same.

The problem I think you have is your usecase also includes posting externally to Lemmy. & to some extent, you don’t want those images tied to your Lemmy account. If my users post via my instance then they are welcome to also hotlink the images externally. This is only possible because Reddthat uses a CDN and caches the images as much as possible.

Even if we didn’t use a cdn there are plenty of VPS’ and proxy software that we could use which would transparently function in the same way. You could even setup your own VPS, some image hosting software like https://chibisafe.moe/ or https://github.com/nokonoko/Uguu or https://github.com/hauxir/imgpush

To sum up:

• post once to Lemmy instance and then use that image everywhere
• use a random image host that allows hotlinking to do the same
• get your own VPS, setup an image upload and use that (and maybe get a domain too!)

The 3rd option you can do completely anonymously via crypto.

Having a list of all alternatives in the sidebar of alternative places to find people is my recommendation. Thus if people wish to keep a backup community on Reddthat I’m sure to let them.

This is sso support as the client. So you could use any backend that supports the oauth backend (I assume, didn’t look at it yet).

So you could use a forgejo instance, immediately making your git hosting instance a social platform, if you wanted.
Or use something as self hostable like hydra.

Or you can use the social platforms that already exist such as Google or Microsoft. Allowing faster onboarding to joining the fediverse. While allowing the issues that come with user creation to be passed onto a bigger player who already does verification. All of these features are up for your instance to decide on.
The best part, if you don’t agree with what your instance decides on, you can migrate to one that has a policy that coincides with your values.

Hope that gives you an idea behind why this feature is warranted.

https://reddthat.com/signup

2nd best reporting in.

A faster db. Just the regular performance benefits, https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-16-released-2715/

Also, Lemmy is built against v16 (now) so at some point it will eventually no longer JustWork

The script will be useless to you, besides for referencing what to do.

Export, remove pg15, install pg16, import. I think you can streamline with both installed at once as they correctly version. You could also use the in place upgrade. Aptly named: pg_upgradeclusters

But updating to 0.19.4, you do not need to go to pg16… but… you should, because of the benefits!

That awkward moment when you are the person they are talking about when running beta in production!

Make sure to read the side bar. Support questions go to !askandroid@lemdro.id

See my PR for a new backup script. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ansible/pull/210

I’ll get to adding it to the main docs on the weekend.

Tldr, piping your backups via docker is CPU expensive. Directly writing to filesystem in a postgres compatible format with compression is faster and more efficient on the CPU.

My 90GB+ (on filesystem) db compresses to 6GB and takes less than 15 mins.

Been running this since -rc1 & 0.19.1 for the past 13 hours. No issues related to Federation since! just higher CPU load compared to 0.18.x releases.

Thanks for another great release. Suppose I should go fix our ansible ey?

Should be fixed. (It already got merged: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4213)

I chose poke bugs. And look where I am now!

Hello,

Please see the rules of reddthat here: https://reddthat.com/post/9701

No racism or other discrimination No endorsement of hate speech

As such you have broken our rules, specifically being racist. You have remained civil and I thank-you for that. Normally I would have banned the account in question by now, but have decided not too unless others end up reporting your comments, but I see that as unlikely as this has become a worthwhile discussion.

What has your post in the community abandonedporn got to do with this? Nothing. This is an offtopic conversation which you started off with zero context. And text with zero context can be read with a myriad of inflections even when the best intentions are meant.
If you started off saying you knew the area, or lived down the road, that may have some credibility and then tied into your current feelings about the issue then we wouldn’t have had a problem if you said it in a way that acknowledged it was your own opinion. Like how you have now is amazing, I wish all comments were as thoughtful as this. But you chose to originally post in a community that has next to nothing to do with Russia to voice your opinion on your dislike.

Hatred towards any country is not welcome on Reddthat. I understand your feelings and they are worth while.

I look forward to seeing you in a different community, maybe a political community to have a discussion.

Thankyou

Reddthat Admin Team

Please do not bring your hatred of a few against a whole population. That type of hatred is against Reddthat’s rules.

Please refrain from future comments like that.

If you don’t see create community in the top next to create post, then your home server doesn’t allow users to create community

No. You have to have an account on that server. (And have to use that account regularly as well, otherwise you won’t see reports about your community)

You make posts.

Don’t forget & in community names and sidebars.

Constantly getting trolled by &

No reddthat too? 😜

What a hero!