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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?

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[โ€“] majorswitcher@lemmyfly.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] Kaldo@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

Thats the way the decentralized fediverse works (I think!) let me know if Iโ€™m wrong