FWIW, I don't block any instances or sublemmys, cross-instance community discovery has always been half-broken in Lemmy and unfortunately nothing I can do about it except force a discovery by searching the instance locally by searching for it.
FWIW, I don't block any instances or sublemmys, cross-instance community discovery has always been half-broken in Lemmy and unfortunately nothing I can do about it except force a discovery by searching the instance locally by searching for it.
Introducing Site-wide Image Proxy Filter! - 2023-07-31
Hey fellow Lemmings,
I hope everyone is having a wonderful day! Today, I'm thrilled to share some exciting news with you about a new feature that's being implemented across our beloved Lemmy platform. The team (aka myself), is introducing a site-wide Image Proxy Filter to bolster user privacy and prevent any potential leakage of IP addresses.
If you have been on Lemmy for awhile, you would have known that image and thumbnails requests currently all serve from the original instance. This means, even if you are on lemmy.kya.moe, you would still be requesting images and thumbnails from other instances, hence leaking your IP address.
As you can imagine, this is very bad for privacy, and even though there is currently work ongoing to bring about a native image proxy to the software stack, it is likely not to see release in the next couple of weeks. As such, the team (aka myself), has implemented an in-line filtering system to replace all media links with an external image proxy.
The way it works is simple:
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Anonymized Requests: Whenever you browse on lemmy.kya.moe, instead of your device receiving the original image URL, the web server being used, filters and returns a modified URL that wraps the original URL in an image proxy caching service. Your client/browser then accesses that image proxy caching service, instead of the original instance/host hosting that image, thereby masking your browsing and IP address from the other instances (e.g. lemmy.ml, lemmy.world, beehaw.org).
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Image Caching: To improve performance and reduce server load on other instances, the proxy server used also caches images and media temporarily. So, if multiple users access the same content, the proxy serves it from its own cache, minimizing redundant requests to the hosting server.
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Geo-distribution: The image proxy is served from behind Cloudflare. While this may not appeal to some of you, it is the easiest, fastest and cheapest (remember, I am not funded) way to serve images in a performant manner across the globe.
Lemmy@きゃ/kya.moe is committed to user privacy and safety, and this new feature is a testament to that dedication. By deploying the image proxy filter, we (as in myself), are taking significant steps to protect your personal data and create a safer online environment for all Lemmings.
We're (again, myself) continuously working on improving your Lemmy experience, and this is just one of many initiatives in our roadmap. As always, your feedback is crucial to us, and we welcome your thoughts and suggestions on how we can make Lemmy an even better place for everyone.
**If you encounter any issues, please comment to this post, with the affected post/comment/image URL.
Cheers
Note: This entire post was mostly entirely written by ChatGPT, because I'm too lazy.
People really need to stop dogpiling on the most popular instances and instead spread themselves out.
I do that on my own instance too :D, private and small instances are really the way to go!
Yes, but the common user would just register on the most popular instance. It will take a lot of effort to change that mindset.
Exactly the reason why Lemmy at scale will never work, since most people won't run their own instance.
Welcome to きゃ/kya.moe
Welcome!
Welcome to my own personal Lemmy instance. Even though this was created to by for my own personal usage, anyone else is free to also use this instance, as long as they abide by the rules in the sidebar!
Please refrain from any actions that may cause my instance to be defederated from any other instance!
Note: I would prefer if communities are created on other instances, as this is still a personal instance, and I do not want to be responsible for any missing data.
About lemmy.kya.moe (this instance)
While this is first and foremost a personal instance for myself, I will pledge to keep this instance running for as long as reasonably possible.
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For some technical background, this instance is operated following industry best practices:
- This server is running in a bedroom! (well, not exactly, but it is why I can afford to keep this server up at low costs)
- The entire Lemmy application stack lives in a VM, with 1 CPU core, and 2GiB of RAM.
- The VM that is backed up relatively frequently to both local, and remote backups.
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A significant chunk of funding for this infrastructure comes directly from our amazing community myself. This support is essential to help secure our future. These supporters I, myself deserve the gratitude of all lemmy.kya.moe users!
FAQ.
What is きゃ?
It is the Japanese hiragana of the kya onomatopoeia.
Why are signups closed?
Sorry, as part of my beliefs in a federated Fediverse to ensure no instance grows too big, even my own, I will block user registrations as and when activity on this Lemmy instance passes a threshold.
Welcome to my own personal Lemmy instance. Anyone is free to use this instance, as long as they abide by the rules! Please refrain from any actions that may cause my instance to be defederated from any other instance!-