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.

    • @schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      4•3 days ago

      no, I agree with the above user that it would be better to federate images too, for at least the following reasons:

      • redundancy: see the OP
      • privacy reasons: images loaded from other instances inform the other instance that one is viewing those images, do you trust all of them?
      • censorship reasons: some lemmy instances are blocked in my workplace and I can never look at images from them when browsing at work; others may be blocked in entire countries

      If I’m not mistaken, Mastodon already does federate images to other instances, so it isn’t unheard of.