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Since the CSAM attacks, I have disabled pictrs on my instance until I can turn off caching images from other instances. However, I haven't been keeping up on pictrs development. I know there were talks about making this feature, but I am unable to find any information about pictrs and the state of development.

Is pictrs open source? If yes, does anyone have a link to the source? If no, is there anywhere I can find information about the state of development of the project? The only thing I can find is its docker hub page here, which has a completely blank description.

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[–] oleorun@real.lemmy.fan 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)
[–] dandroid@dandroid.app 1 points 11 months ago

Yep! This is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!

[–] taaz@biglemmowski.win 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I was looking for similar information myself, but from what I could gather pictrs v0.5 added media retention settings which allows pictrs to drop the original files locally when it wasn't accessed for some time, also applies to the generates thumbnails (variants).

I couldn't find a way to force pictrs to basically not store the remote images at all, only variants (thumbnails).

And afaik, lemmy would also have to change the way it works with remote images (and interacts with pictrs) - as for example to not download/upload anything until the post is actually viewed.