There will be a lot of instance purging, it seems! ╰(▔∀▔)╯

What is it, per user? Configurable in account settings?

Wait where is the changelog for 0.19?

I never said to ban video. Video can be hosted elsewhere and shared as links without the need for instances to host and embed videos on instances. Lemmy instances are run by hobbyists and people with extra potato hardware. They do not have billions of dollars like Big Data companies.

Lemmy needs to be kept light without fancy video and unnecessary web2/3 bloat. Far more blind users have old tech, than those that need specifically video on Lemmy. PeerTube, Odyssy, LBRY, Vimeo, Dailymotion and even YouTube can be used for video.

Most visual needs for blind people can be met with gifs and pictures instead of video, where one video can eat the space of hundreds and thousands of images that thousands of blind users could get help with.

To devs and instance owners that read this, do not integrate video onto servers, to save yourselves from astronomical storage space issues. Text, images and audio (64-128 kbps OPUS or AAC) are extremely cheap.

I also see more usage of widescreen on desktop, which is a lot better than before, but still has ways to go to match up to old Reddit style text density. The performance is snappy. Trying to hold on to moderation reins for Lemmy.

I will be very honest, my funny part of the brain sometimes thinks ml = Marxist Leninist. Please forgive me admins.

I knew something shitty was going on.

IMO there should exist for Lemmy an uptime or a notice site on a separate server, which can tell us atleast what is going on briefly.

I suggest sifting through the images uploaded on the server, if they are not millions, which should not take too long as Lemmy is still not too huge. We can figure out a way to process images automatically for NSFW content in the future.