i'm building a general firehose at the moment for my paid gig and i had to just blanket disable media loading because of the garbage that was being found on the popular free relays. i definitely agree that all media being only rendered as links should be an option for this reason, because of jumble's relay feeds. and it should default on for relay feed views, so maybe even better to have two options, one for all, and if that is disabled, you can just disable relay feed media loading.

the spammers are making full use of the free resources certain people are giving them.