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Thoughts on media hosting for sharing? (self.support)

submitted 1 year ago by base9 to c/support

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What are you thoughts on how you prefer users to share media(video and images) for other users? Self-hosting? Trusted sources for uploading?

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[–] Squiddles 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Related question for you: on the Animals and Pets community there's a sidebar requesting that images be uploaded elsewhere to lower the cost associated with hosting it locally. I made a post with an image hosted elsewhere (vgy.me), but the image on the finished post seems to be hosted from beehaw? I linked this URL, and my beehaw post is serving the image from this location.

Is it expected that beehaw/lemmy is rehosting the image? Or am I misunderstanding and it's something like a virtual file that's cached on beehaw temporarily and otherwise just passes through to the third party host? Just want to be as gentle on the servers as possible. Thanks!

[–] Lionir 3 points 1 year ago

So we found out after you posted this image that we cache the image anyways when it's being shown on Lemmy so we've decided to just remove that policy as it is practically useless. Thank you for the comment and thank you for the consideration!