Sorry for the short post, I’m not able to make it nice with full context at the moment, but I want to quickly get this announcement out to prevent confusion:
Unfortunately, people are uploading child sexual abuse images on some instances (apparently as a form of attack against Lemmy). I am taking some steps to prevent such content from making it onto lemm.ee servers. As one preventative measure, I am disabling all image uploads on lemm.ee until further notice - this is to ensure that lemm.ee can not be used as gateway to spread CSAM into the network.
It will not possible to upload any new avatars or banners while this limit is in effect.
I’m really sorry for the disruption, it’s a necessary trade-off for now until we figure out the way forward.
use imgur or imgbb. outsource image hosting.
I wouldve recommended catbox.moe but I have FUD about it now. I assume they are have themselves together, but I cant know for shure.
well we could always use any other suggestions: imgur is a spyware in itself, but what can we do (i put it in the freezer app so i dont get wiretapped, suddenly my videos started to be uploaded in gif form by them to save on bandwidth lol 😭 )
also ur fears are justified, but just checked: ghostery doesn’t show any trackers on catbox’s part, so its safe to use…for now…but one has to stay vigilant and make regular checks to see what will happen about them