I have proposed something of this nature to the Lemmy developers and am waiting on feedback from them.
but it might even be possible to intercept images to check that this exists in the meta data before Lemmy wipes it....
This would be impossible without directly modifying Lemmy itself.
There could be a few trusted folk out there turning their servers into S3 nodes (?) via minio or something like that, which Lemmy's pict-rs could use as storage. The main Lemmy backend process serves out the images anyway (I have no real idea why pict-rs is that separate tbh), so throwing a CDN in front of that (filtered to images and video) should be enough to get some reliability on serving images.
Of course this is only the technical stuff. The legal parts are a completely different issue altogether
There seems to be enough interested people that even if this one were to die, a "phoenix lemmynsfw" or few is almost sure to happen. Of course the issue with that would be getting all the activity back again, so it would be nice if that did not happen.
There is no way in hell a single person will be able to handle an instance of this size (and rapidly growing). Coordinating is a must if this instance (or any other like it should it die before everything gets set up properly) were to stay alive
The JS patch was deployed for a very short time (remember when the NSFW box was showing checked but wasn't? Yeah). Any further development seems to have been done on the Lemmy code itself, under different tags (not branches)
Best of luck, both to you and whatever you decide to do in the future, but also to the poor soul who will now have to maintain all this after you :p
For kickstarting I personally just dumped the relevant ones from my own stash (that were still up, I have a few more I'll need to reupload because Imgur & co) and let the community take over from there, though of the 3 communities I tried it only seems to have worked for 1, so YMMV.
Please keep discussion to the pinned thread. There is a link in the sidebar if pins aren't showing up on your client of choice.
Report them and we'll remove them. This community is starting to get a bit more active than I anticipated so I can't really look at every post by myself like I could at the start.
It's likely a caching issue considering how random it seems to be. Do a CTRL+F5 and try again.
Looking through the (Firefox) devtools, there is only one cookie (being my login token), but a fair bit of cached images (and IndexedDB data for managing said cache), which is what I assume most of that size is.
The reason why it's easy to find communities here is because this instance is specially modified to list them without being logged in.
Your best bet would be to bug admins of instances who are explicitly OK with NSFW to pull in a patch like the one used by this instance, or tell https://lemmynsfw.com/c/nsfw411 about them as you find them.
Reddit doesn't own that content, individual posters do. They do grant Reddit a license to display it to others (in the terms of service nobody reads) but they are still the legal owners of their posts (assuming we're talking about OC)
If we leave the reposting to lemmit, people can easily opt out from it showing up on their All feeds by blocking the singular bot that does all the posts, whereas if we allow it here people would need to individually block each bot.
However, Lemmit only reposts Reddit, there is at least one bot here that reposts one of the rule34 boorus, and I'm sure other sites are to follow. Those seem to be the real issues here.
I'd be happy to have a couple extra hands around to help with any of my communities. Right now things seem to be pretty smooth sailing by themselves, but nobody can really see what the future holds.
!aigen is the most active one of all, and my main worry is anything that may look underage. Right now posts are slow enough that I can reasonably check the new ones every day or so in a couple minutes, but it is starting to get considerably more active than I anticipated. At least another person would be nice.
The other two (the second one being brand new) are not active at all. Unless they somehow find activity I don't think I'll need any help with those.
Also feel free to go through my subscribed list and lmk if you have a similar community (or if your community is up there) you may need help moderating. I think I have the time for 1-2 extra communities of similar activity to !aigen.
From IzzyOnDroid or F-Droid proper? If so, consider switching. F-Droid by itself does (intentionally) take longer to update whereas Izzy's repo will pull the latest release directly from GitHub
Pictrs itself seems to support S3 as a backend. I think they're talking about that.
https://git.asonix.dog/asonix/pict-rs#user-content-filesystem-to-object-storage-migration