When you upload an image in the URL bar when creating a post, where does it go? Are they hosted on the respective Instance of the community?

  • AnonStoleMyPants@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    That seems weird. So the more people are here and longer Lemmy instances (any of them) are up the more storage each instance needs? Soon you can’t have small instances because you will need tons of storage for all pictures that have ever been posted in any of the instances?

    • majorswitcher@lemmyfly.org
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      1 year ago

      only pictures and posts that the instance-member are subscribed to, and from the moment they interacted with it. But yes, I’m curious to see where this goes.

      I noticed it when I was looking in the database and disk on my instance, where there are already thousands of posts and more then a thousand images - while my own instance only has a couple of posts and images

      • Kaldo@beehaw.org
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        1 year ago

        But it still means if a single user on a small instance is subscribed to a massive media instance, they alone will generate tons of traffic and storage requirement… Seems really weird