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this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2023
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We actually feature a federated image hosting service on lemmy, there isn't much to image hosting to federate, you're right, but we shouldn't rely on imgur or discord or anything centralized wherever possible to avoid centralization of control over our media.
What's really the difference between a federated Lemmy instance for hosting vs a 3rd party anyways?
If another Lemmy instance goes down, all the content on it is gone anyways. Federated != Mirrored. Just because you can browse the content doesn't mean it's safe from going away at the whims of one person
That's very true, but i'm opposed to giving discord and imgur even more power over the media posted to it.
Again, image hosting is a very minimally federated thing, and it's one of the areas where it makes the least difference, but regardless, we should strive to avoid centralization wherever possible.
Also, I think it's possible to create a federated automatically mirrored alternative, I wonder if there's potential there, I don't know!