ckolderup
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12 months ago I'm reluctant to support this for now because it raises a lot of technical questions about price, maintenance, expiration, etc, but also gets into dangerous territory with illegal content etc. If you don't sufficiently protect yourself from bad actors on the network, you can get yourself into some serious trouble, and for what benefit? images in comments? Lots of platforms don't support embedded images in comments.
Closing it for now; we can always revisit if the demand is sufficient and we feel like our trust & safety situation is in a better place.
If someone attaches an image or other multimedia to a reply they send on Mastodon, or even just includes a URL in their post, should we render that? And how would we support caching the media locally? Do we need to include some kind of S3 bucket (or compatible service) support?