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[Done] Pictrs Migration- Between NOW and 1700 UTC Image Upload Disabled (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi all, We will be attempting to migrate Pict-rs tomorrow starting at 1700 UTC. Between now and 1700, image uploads will be disabled to try and avoid any data loss. You will still be able to like, comment and post until then. During the upgrade window, Pict-rs will be offline, so viewing images might not work. In theory CloudFlares CDN cache should cover us during the window, but YMMV. Hopefully everything should go smooth, but we do our best to make sure we have backups!

You can monitor our site health at https://dash.lemmy.world and https://status.lemmy.world

We will post updates to https://mastodon.world/@LemmyWorld as well.

Cheers, LW Infra Team 💗

Update This change is done. Images are now hosted on S3 storage and uploads are re-enabled.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

But for those "I hate that instance BLOCK IT!!!!! FOR MURICA!!!!!!" A instance wide defederation is too much. But for those really bad like csam or racist, radical instances it is the best to defederate.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

That is a fair point, and I would agree if the only people calling for threads defederation were the snowflakes (the overly sensative opininated users you speak of). However many people have highlighted important reasons why threads federation isn't a good idea.

Reasons such as:

Embrace Extend Extinguish Concerns (Already discussed in great detail elsewhere I won't beat a dead horse)
Facebook has a very bad track record when it comes to shady and malicious practices
Facebook has a very poor track record when it comes to effectively moderating spam and hate speech

So while there are some bad and dumb reasons people argue for defederation there are legitimate concerns over this and threads.

Side note (also a bit of a rant):

I feel like the sensitive snowflake users ruin it for people who have legitimate and valid concerns, they undermine efforts to make spaces better because people are so used to dealing with them that when a person brings up something that could be a problem or should be addressed the default response is to dismissively just tell them to block users or instances, under the assumption that a user is one of those snowflakes. (It happened back with the Rammy situation, when the user posted to alert the fediverse that their instance was rogue).

Personally I feel like there should be more severity when it comes to users who make false/opinionated claims so that any claims in general aren't treated as false or non-credible by default, but I also realize that would be difficult given the size of the instance and also isn't really my pace to decide since I'm not responsible for user moderation outside of my own communities or ones I mod in.

Just some things to think about. Also sorry for the late response, been having trouble on my Lemmy app. I guess better late than never though (lot of times it is never when I'm late to check or respond).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

We will see. We will be of course not cu ksu king if we see a lot of just spam, hate or just ads to "Come over to threads" ads in any way we will look into defedarating them.