So far Lemmy is vibing. Everyone here is excited and optimistic and willing to put up with a few rough spots to be part of something.

When the Eternal September comes, which it will, how does a Lemmy instance deal with bad actors?

  • FlowerTree@pawb.social
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    1 year ago

    Not fully on Lemmy. While text posts are cached across all federated instances, medias such as images and videos aren’t…

    Also, correct me if I’m wrong, but media uploaded to a community from another instance is uploaded to the users’ instance, not the instance of the community.

    This may change in the future, and I hope so.

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      1 year ago

      Images are cached in Mastodon but obviously that gets to be a storage problem at a certain scale so I’m not sure what the cache settings are. It’s sort of ephemeral, obviously the original post still bounces around internally in systems’ memory for at least some time and that’s enough for popular posts of offline instances to hang around.