Is it possible to disable image uploading and images being cached to my server from other instances?
Is it possible to disable image uploading and images being cached to my server from other instances?
I have searched and not come up with the solution, I apologize if it's obvious and I have somehow missed it.
I would like to disable uploading images on my instance, and more importantly, disable the caching of images from other instances onto my server.
It's run on a tiny server, and I simply cannot afford a larger server to deal people uploading large images on instances I'm federated to being cached onto my server.
For an example, this post https://lemmy.ml/post/1450558 was federated to my server and the image was cached on my server automatically (https://lemmy.dustybeer.com/pictrs/image/19336064-e45f-4abf-b5c2-0ce7b69a1b7c.jpeg?format=webp)
It's not a big deal for a couple of images, but I can very quickly see this exploding and using up all of my (relatively tiny) disk space.
It also seems like a great vector for a malicious party to bring down an instance they don't like if they know it's caching images.
Again I apologize if I've just missed this in the docs and my searching, but any suggestions would be appreciated.