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Tootsuite/mastodon Issue#1847: Media content caching strategy (github.com)
2 points by oakridge 3353 days ago
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People are currently discussing about the legal implications of storing images coming from federated Mastodon instances. A lot of this stems from an influx of users at pawoo.net, a Mastodon instance set up by Pixiv, posting CP and CP-like content. While Pixiv explains that these images are legal in Japan where the servers are hosted, a lot of the instances federated with pawoo have jurisdictions setting such images as illegal, or at least immoral. As response, a lot of instances have defederated from pawoo.