elsat
· 108w
1) Agree on the anime p*rn being an eyesore for most. Certain relays have more than others. Agree protocol allows for this, and it is the tradeoff of censorship resistance. I see onboarding as the ini...
One fundamental flaw I see with this idea is that if you are addressing the method in which I gathered these IPs (via DM), you would have to send decrypted URLs from a users end-to-end encrypted DMs to the image proxy, which endangers privacy in a new way because it revealed part of the message to the proxy. Now you have to trust the proxy with potential secrets.
Link Previews are also a vector for attack here, and it would be even worse to send all DM'd URLs through the proxy.
I also worry that image proxies could bloat the cost of running a client, are a form of centralization (this solution only benefits Damus users), and are a vector for DDoS/Abuse.