I’m not sure how long it took, but for a while the instance had crashed. For some reason the Lemmy photo upload service took up 150GB of free space and hence the server crashed because of it. I’m not sure about the possibility of recurrence as I don’t know the exact reason.
For this reason, you can follow our Mastodon account, which I have just opened, to follow or report possible crashes.
Should we upload media elsewhere? I am concerned about whats happening to imgur making outside uploads unsafe.
Thanks for the update and working to give us a porn space.
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Images are stored by a seperate service - pictrs. It should be possible to run it on an entirely different server, as well as with block storage.
What happened to Imgur?
They are purging all existing NSFW posts and banning new uploads.
I’m worried about media on any other sharing site. Just look how the Imgur change has broken so many old Reddit posts.
PixelFed might be worth looking into, if you’re considering hosting images off-site.