• pe1uca@lemmy.pe1uca.dev
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    1 year ago

    That’s because you arrived when reddit already had its image hosting.
    Before you could only upload a link, so you had to find a hosting site.
    It’d be the same if lemmy didn’t have one.
    And in fact it’s like that for me, I didn’t configured pict-rs, so I can’t upload images to my lemmy instance, I need to configure it or use a hosting site.

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      1 year ago

      Wow image-hosting is a thing. Why don’t they just have something so essential out of the box, is it expensive or something

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        It requires a lot of storage space. Much more than for just text.

        Also, additional liability for hosting images uploaded by literally anyone, that could depict abuse, or be copyrighted.

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        Short answer is yes. Long answer is that with text it’s much easier to stamp out illegal activity because keyword searches are cheap while semantic searches in images are pretty good but extremely computationally expensive. You can’t just scan for illegal activity in images the same way you can nigh instantly scan a body of text for “illegal-site.com”.

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          1 year ago

          That makes a certain kind of sense but does that mean the filtering algorithm Facebook uses that targets NSFW photos in posts and group chats is very complicated and expensive? is it important for a site like reddit or Lemmy to scan for illegal activities oj a photo?