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.
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.
Instances have 3 options. Save it locally, proxy it, or do nothing. Saving every federated image is not feasible for small instances. It’s not a fault of the protocol that instance operators don’t want to pay a thousand dollars a month for storage. Matrix has this problem, and look what happened to them: tiny instances are expensive to run, so don’t flourish.