EDIT: Repo here.
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Yep! This is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!
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.