FYI I made a patch for lemmy that turns off pictrs caching - eviltoast
Adding a new config flag to disable pictrs caching for thumbnails by NickGeek · Pull Request #3897 · LemmyNet/lemmy
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#3799 has a bug, so I fixed it up alongside simplifying the logic slightly and adding a config flag to opt in to this new behaviour. Currently live on https://campfyre.nickwebster.dev

I was getting close to hitting the end of my free object storage so there was time pressure involved haha.

Seems to work but I haven’t tested it too much. Currently running on my instance.

  • 𝙣𝙪𝙠𝙚@yah.lolEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    Great work!

    This got me thinking, does Lemmy clear orphan pictrs files? Say a user uploads an image but never submits the comment/post? That file is still on your pictrs and publicly linkable. And what if the post or comment is removed by moderator or deleted by the author? Is Lemmy cleaning these up?

    • nick@campfyre.nickwebster.devOPEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      I don’t think anything in lemmy is currently clearing that. There are community scripts around that do some clearing but I have not tried them.