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How will we deal with all the broken images? (lemm.ee)
submitted 1 day 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 1 day 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"..

[–] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I assume it's an intentional trade-off by the devs to reduce the storage burden. If each instance is a complete mirror of all federated instances then hosting becomes that much more expensive.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 6 points 1 day ago

It's also an avenue for attacks.

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