Suddenly seeing more hexbear posts. Did we re-federate with them? - eviltoast

If so, was it polled somewhere?

  • Clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    I’m fairly new to Lemmy. What does that signify? something to do with federation I guess? I can see the picture - Xi as Pooh Bear…

    • HornyOnMain [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      Recently someone started trying to bring large Lemmy instances down by posting CSAM on large instances with open sign ups, as a result the hexbear mods made it so that images from untrusted instances wouldn’t be shown to hexbear users to avoid hexbear users having to see stuff like that and to reduce the mods workload, idk whether its a temporary measure or not but for now all images from untrusted instances are just replaced with the words *removed externally hosted image* on our end