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I’ve been thing a lot about this too. Is it a good idea to set up my own single-user instance of Lemmy and post with that to this community? Would that mean if I make a post or comment and include media that it’s hosted on my server?
I ask because I wonder if theoretically I made a popular post here via my instance if it causes a lot of server load for people to see it. Trying to wrap my head around all of it.
Another thought I had is if I decided to create a Mastodon instance and use that to post here as well what the impacts of that would be?
AFAIK it's not much different as we will be downloading the picture to serve it here. It's one of the ways that fediverse servers do load balancing across the fediverse - each instance handles their own community's bandwidth usage.
Related question: does Lemmy allow admins to specify how long to keep media from other instances? Does it get automatically deleted after some time?
Good question! I don't know.