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How will we deal with all the broken images? (lemm.ee)
submitted 3 days 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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[–] ptz@dubvee.org 5 points 3 days ago

Depending on how the admin has pict-rs (the "subsystem" it uses for media) configured, post images can create local copies /thumbnails for image posts. Some instances opt to do that, some don't.

Other images like ones posted a comments, user/community avatars/banners aren't stored anywhere except their home instance.

But yeah, even the limited caching has proven problematic if questionable/illegal content gets posted.