Sorry for the short post, I’m not able to make it nice with full context at the moment, but I want to quickly get this announcement out to prevent confusion:

Unfortunately, people are uploading child sexual abuse images on some instances (apparently as a form of attack against Lemmy). I am taking some steps to prevent such content from making it onto lemm.ee servers. As one preventative measure, I am disabling all image uploads on lemm.ee until further notice - this is to ensure that lemm.ee can not be used as gateway to spread CSAM into the network.

It will not possible to upload any new avatars or banners while this limit is in effect.

I’m really sorry for the disruption, it’s a necessary trade-off for now until we figure out the way forward.

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      10 months ago

      Its a bug in sombodies markdown parsing.

      Your URL was somehow HTML escaped.

      Correct

      …?width=640&height=480

      Incorrect

      …?width=640&height=480

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        10 months ago

        I uh… don’t know what you mean there. I was just pointing out that the image I posted is hosted externally, so it doesn’t mean I found a bypass to the disabled uploads. It displays fine on the website.

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          10 months ago

          Some software somwhere has a bug in it and it broke your link, im sorry if i failed to communicate that