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I have proposed something of this nature to the Lemmy developers and am waiting on feedback from them.

There could be a few trusted folk out there turning their servers into S3 nodes (?) via minio or something like that, which Lemmy's pict-rs could use as storage. The main Lemmy backend process serves out the images anyway (I have no real idea why pict-rs is that separate tbh), so throwing a CDN in front of that (filtered to images and video) should be enough to get some reliability on serving images.

Of course this is only the technical stuff. The legal parts are a completely different issue altogether

There seems to be enough interested people that even if this one were to die, a "phoenix lemmynsfw" or few is almost sure to happen. Of course the issue with that would be getting all the activity back again, so it would be nice if that did not happen.

There is no way in hell a single person will be able to handle an instance of this size (and rapidly growing). Coordinating is a must if this instance (or any other like it should it die before everything gets set up properly) were to stay alive

The JS patch was deployed for a very short time (remember when the NSFW box was showing checked but wasn't? Yeah). Any further development seems to have been done on the Lemmy code itself, under different tags (not branches)

Best of luck, both to you and whatever you decide to do in the future, but also to the poor soul who will now have to maintain all this after you :p

Reddit doesn't own that content, individual posters do. They do grant Reddit a license to display it to others (in the terms of service nobody reads) but they are still the legal owners of their posts (assuming we're talking about OC)

If we leave the reposting to lemmit, people can easily opt out from it showing up on their All feeds by blocking the singular bot that does all the posts, whereas if we allow it here people would need to individually block each bot.

However, Lemmit only reposts Reddit, there is at least one bot here that reposts one of the rule34 boorus, and I'm sure other sites are to follow. Those seem to be the real issues here.

Pictrs itself seems to support S3 as a backend. I think they're talking about that.

https://git.asonix.dog/asonix/pict-rs#user-content-filesystem-to-object-storage-migration

Try a CTRL+F5. Could be a caching issue. Works on FF Nightly

There's actually multiple: https://lemmynsfw.com