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The Slow Fedi Movement: Toward a Green, Independent, and Equitable Fediverse
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this post was submitted on 26 Apr 2024
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What I feel is missing from the practical suggestions section: why cache images at all? They should be stored on the server they were uploaded to, and nowhere else. The image URL would be attached to the post, and could then be used by clients to fetch the image from the original server.
I thought lemmy did this, but it seems not (any more?).
I hear you on this - Akkoma does this by default, but the issue there is, let's say someone on a tiny server posts an image, even a relatively small one - if it gets boosted by an account with 10k followers, that small server will effectively get DDOSed, assuming enough of those clients are online.