When you upload an image in the URL bar when creating a post, where does it go? Are they hosted on the respective Instance of the community?

  • majorswitcher@lemmyfly.orgEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    only pictures and posts that the instance-member are subscribed to, and from the moment they interacted with it. But yes, I’m curious to see where this goes.

    I noticed it when I was looking in the database and disk on my instance, where there are already thousands of posts and more then a thousand images - while my own instance only has a couple of posts and images

    • Kaldo@beehaw.orgEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      But it still means if a single user on a small instance is subscribed to a massive media instance, they alone will generate tons of traffic and storage requirement… Seems really weird