Still the right thing

It depends on the instance configuration. If images are proxied, no traffic should show up.

They use different images.

When the image of “Nicole” is loaded, your computer/phone connects to another server and transfers your IP address. But it currently looks like it’s not that big of a problem. Still a fix will be implemented soon to prevent this.

This would break a lot of sites

Thanks! Completely overlooked that

Hmm do you have a link to docs for that? 🤔

But shouldn’t this depend on the receiving end? I have enabled it and it still used the direct link

That’s the big question. But it looks intentional.

Apparently not https://europe.pub/comment/40270

These are phishing bots. Never interact with them.

As far as I understand do they use Bluesky’s infrastructure.

The problem isn’t the PDS but the Relays. You need terabytes of storage and and some beefy hardware to run one of these. Also there are still quite some parts centralized.