Gregory's Server
Long complicated reason: mastodon currently uses a legacy attachment manager package for Rails and it's ridiculously complex to upgrade to ActiveStorage or something else without needing to reupload all media (which would potentially be prohibitively expensive for server operators & require publishing update to all existing notes & actors containing media)
- https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/5729
- https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/7414
- https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/30352
@thisismissem @hongminhee Ah I see, Iโm glad I had the foresight to handle this properly when designing this back in 2018.
Also thankful for not depending on a 3rd party lib for such an essential feature, I donโt blame Mastodon for this though, being that Pixelfed is media focused, it was a higher priority design constraint in my mind.