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?
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?
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
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
Thats the way the decentralized fediverse works (I think!) let me know if I’m wrong
I run a Mastodon instance and the amount of storage space I need is ridiculous. My own instance doesn’t have a lot of media, but all the other instances that mine federates with do — so I currently have to pay for 500 GB of object storage.