drop em here!!!

  • chaddy@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Hosting the images directly on the lemmy/kbin instance creates imo unnecessary traffic to the servers. I don’t know if admins can disable selfhosting images, but considering the low-powered machines almost every instance is currently hosted on, I would assume it would be in everyones self-interest to outsource image hosting (at least for now).

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      This is a privacy risk because Lemmy doesn’t proxy external media (or cache remote media like Mastodon). It’s also better for longevity, if an external image host the image is gone.