Hi all. Due to the news of the illegal images being hosted on lemmy, I shut down my instance. I read some comments from people stating that they were able to selfhost lemmy without pictrs, they just can’t upload or cache photos. I think this is what I am interested in doing at this time.

I tried commenting out the pictrs section of my docker-compose.yml and removed the “depends on pictrs” sections. However, I get the error message in the attached screenshot when I go to my page.

Does anyone have any info on how to selfhost lemmy with image hosting completely disabled?

  • knoland
    7•1 year ago

    I don’t understand why lemmy caches photos in the first place? Like surely it’s quicker, easier, and lower bandwidth to just store a url to the original source.

    • @[email protected]English
      11•1 year ago

      Lower bandwidth for who? When images are cached on other instances, it allows two things:

      • Load sharing. The original instance doesn’t have to serve the whole fediverse, but only its own users + 1 request per other lemmy instance.
      • Data availability through redundancy. If the original instance goes down, the cached image is still viewable on other instances.
      • knoland
        2•1 year ago

        Bandwidth was the wrong choice of words. Storage space is more what I meant.