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How will we deal with all the broken images? (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days 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"..

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

It's also an avenue for attacks.

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