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/media or /mnt or anywhere ? Discussion.
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That's because federated content is probably copied, rather than linked.
I don't understand the need to caching the content instead just accessing it on the go.
Caching should be quicker and less dependent on all sources. Can't say if that is the actual reason here, but those are typical reasons to cache or copy stuff. That also means it is still operational (to a degree) if the other servers are down or slow. Realtime operation makes sense if everything is from one source and is under 100% control. At least in my opinion.
There are also problems like the above case.
Also let's say some instance have i//egal content on it, it would take only one user from your instance to see that content, and now you are hosting the i/lega/ content.
Right, but that is only a problem if no efforts to remove this content are done after finding it out. I mean like in YouTube or any other forum. But yes, that is still one of those problems that could occur, additional maintenance. Question is, if this is a real problem and also defederation from a certain instance or blocking a specific user is also still possible.
Just thinking about, I don't know how editing is different from deleting. If I want something to be deleted, then I could just edit it before the deletion? So it should be gone sooner this way, if ever.
Didn't think about it, gonna use that.