There's something fishy going on right now with one of the major image hosting sites sli.mg .
Lots of users on voat, 4chan etc are complaining that their images have been silently removed.
I dug through my past posts on pizzagate to check the damage, and thanks to steemit's built in caching image proxy all of my post images still work :D
Just another extra perk for steemit users!
Here's a random example of what's being deleted by sli.mg (and saved by steemit)
When viewed via http:
The image is reported missing
http://i.sli.mg/5FsTdm.jpg
When viewed via https:
HTTPS appears to have been disabled on sli.mg
https://i.sli.mg/5FsTdm.jpg
When loaded via steemit image proxy it works fine !
https://img1.steemit.com/0x0/https://i.sli.mg/5FsTdm.jpg
Archive.is has also removed a lot of pages
Archive.is has been used heavily for a lot of the early pizzagate research, and now it seems to by purging its files in response to DMCA requests.
For example:
Lesson : You can't have too many backups
If you're interested, and don't already have a copy of the pizzagate research archive - you can clone the whole thing with this terminal command .
git clone https://gitlab.com/ausbitbank/pizzagate.git
It has many (but not all) of the deleted images, as well as full html copies of heaps of sites and voat posts (that are now gone from archive.is).
An automated voat scraping tool and near complete archive of pizzagate posts can be cloned with this command
git clone https://github.com/pizzascraper/pizzagate-voat-backup.git
Can't stop the signal
Lets connect !
steemit / twitter / gab.ai / keybase
Way to get the word out!
I hate to say it but there was always a nagging question in the back of my mind while looking through the pizzagate threads: "I wonder when these backup sites are going to fail..."
I firmly believe nothing can be trusted if it's FREE. Ultimately someone else's interests are in mind.
Important post, thanks!
The censorship is steadily spreading. I switched from Imgur to Slimg not long ago and now archive and Slimg are falling victim as well. wtf!
I've seen your posts about github(?), I will be paying closer attention now. One of the reasons i came to steemit was to try to escape the censorship.
wow thanks
Hey @ausbitbank check your mobile,
my Sli.gm pics no longer show up on the my mobile, but they are still on the Steemit.com website
Not sure if we can still say Steemit users unaffected
Just checked a few posts and your last one and cant see any missing images in chrome on android.. Do you mean in an app?
Yeah, i meant the app. You're right, the images are still there using a browser. My bad. Still irks me though that things are disappearing.