this post was submitted on 24 Aug 2023
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I don't think this is correct, the images from one instance are hosted on that instance, they don't get copied over. What's federated and copied over is text and references to those images (like this
). The only images that are hosted on your own Lemmy instance are the ones that you and your users upload, which sure if you have open sign ups and a bunch of people using your instance uploading images then it will become a problem very quickly, but for personal use it shouldn't unless you're uploading a lot of images or even videos.Just use external image hosts for posts and comments, and only use image uploads for your own profile and banner and everything should be fine (if you want extra assurance you can disable uploads in case you forget).
Nah I thought the same but then I manually checked it. In most of the image posts I see, the image URL starts with lemmy.org.il, which made me wonder whether they're actually downloaded or it's some kind of whacky proxy. So I downloaded some of these pics and looked for files of identical size and hash digest, and indeed they were on my disk!
It's not a bad decision to cache pics, because it does make the experience really smooth, and I'm not complaining about it. Mastodon does this as well
Weird because I've checked it before and it doesn't seem to, one notable example is that on the lemmy.zip communities I can't see any of the images at all because something on my network or with my ISP blocks zip domains. The posts, comments and all their text gets copied over to lemmy.world but the images don't seem to and thus they don't display for me due to their domains being blocked.
(Alternate DNS doesn't seem to bypass whatever they're doing to block it, I can only connect to .zip domains through Tor or VPN).
I agree it's definitely a good idea to create a more smooth user experience, would also eliminate the problems that I pointed out with the images not loading due to their domain being blocked.