[Solved] Stop Lemmy from mirroring link images (swg-empire.de)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

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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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[-] Die4Ever@programming.dev 7 points 2 years ago

See the config.hjson for image_mode

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/main/config/defaults.hjson#L25-L57

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 3 points 2 years ago

Great! Thanks!

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

[-] Die4Ever@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago

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?