This is also potentially a problem of license violation, isn't it? If I were to embed my own image with an associated license in the alt-text or description that forbade the redistribution of the image then the bot copying the file to IPFS would be in violation of that...
Do we know who the author is?
I think a really great solution would be if the author could produce a version of this bot that people can run themselves and give editing privileges to so that when they post, it can automagically edit the post, upload their own image and then change the embedded image to instead reference the new copy through an HTTP to IPFS gateway!
I think that's a much more community conscious and distributed way of doing things, and is totally the sort of thing I'd hope to see on Steemit!
I am the author, and have disabled the bot
Awesome, thank you! What do you think of the idea of being able to run your own instance that will parse your markdown and edit the images to move their hosting so that people can use the code themselves without impacting others?
I really like the idea of hosting on IPFS and that would be an excellent way for people to be able to do it with minimal effort but without worrying about license violations!
That is actually a very good idea ..
I will think about a bot infrastructure that can deal with bots as a plugin. I have most code for that available already ..
Here's the original announcement thread https://steemit.com/steem-bots/@streemian/streemian-automatic-ipfs-upload-bot