tl;dr - Patreon deleted my page, refused to elaborate, and Catbox is now short $1,300~ in reoccurring income to pay the bill. Support Catbox Here

I use catbox to post videos and moving webp files to lemmy 😭

edit: to be clear I’m not affiliated with catbox, i just shared

  • Chozo@fedia.io
    2·
    6 days ago

    This would be somewhat believable excuse if they only blocked uploading/posting under VPNs.

    With CSAM, you want to block uploading and downloading, because both are problematic for a host.

    In this scenario catbox images posted to Lemmy for example, they don’t only reveal your IP the moment they are loaded when you scroll your feed

    I’m 99% sure it doesn’t work that way. The Lemmy instance caches a preview image for posted links. But scrolling past without clicking a link will not expose your IP to Catbox unless you have an auto-preview setting enabled that opens/caches every link you scroll past automatically, which I don’t believe is enabled by default.