in any case, it still seems good practice to host sensitive images externally so you retain more control and don't have to rely on the shifting (and feasibly changeable, by bad actors) vagaries of mastodon federation rules
@Josephine perhaps. that'd require devs tho, right? (main devs or yr local ones, who'd then have to maintain their changes w/ each new masto version that rolls out)
@alyx yes, I'd assume this would be a change in how Mastodon handles image uploads. Totally a code base change. Cc/ @Gargron