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submitted 2 weeks ago by Irelephant@lemm.ee to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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When an instance goes down, all of the images on it go with it. there's going to be a lot from lemm.ee, especially given its size.

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[–] Goretantath@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (15 children)

Images dont get saved locally on other instances if they host the content? Well that seems like a big flaw in "federation"..

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 8 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

Not really, it means I can't send every lemmy instance csam.

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

no, I agree with the above user that it would be better to federate images too, for at least the following reasons:

redundancy: see the OP
privacy reasons: images loaded from other instances inform the other instance that one is viewing those images, do you trust all of them?
censorship reasons: some lemmy instances are blocked in my workplace and I can never look at images from them when browsing at work; others may be blocked in entire countries

If I'm not mistaken, Mastodon already does federate images to other instances, so it isn't unheard of.

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago

Mastodon purges them after a while though.

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