I don't see how it's a privacy risk since you're not exposing your IP or anything. Likewise the images are already uploaded to your servers, so there's no extra privacy risk for the uploader.
Yeah, things requiring choosing a instance like, say, email, are doomed to fail
Tech journalists never learn anything from history. No Vc-funded social media is good
For now. They're still in their growth phase. If they ever become dominant and they need to make money, they'll turn into a walled garden like every other. Everyone seems to forget that Twitter, Reddit and Facebook were also all about openness at the start
You can actually run it in async model without pictrs safety and just have it scan your newly uploaded images directly from storage. It just doesn't prevent upload this way, just deletes them.
You don't get public traffic redirected. It's not how it works
It stops doing checks. Iirc you can configure it yes
https://github.com/db0/fedi-safety and the companion app https://github.com/db0/pictrs-safety which can be installed as part of your lemmy deployment in the docker-compose (or with a var in your ansible)
Not all web traffic, just the images to check. With any decent bandwidth, it shouldn't be an issue for most. It also setup in such a way as to not cause a downtime if the checker goes down.
The software is setup in such a way that you can run it on your pc if you have a local gpu. It only needs like 2 gb vram
Why would it be a security risk?