How does image uploading work on Lemmy? (vlemmy.net)

submitted 2 years ago by Silviecat44@vlemmy.net to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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?

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[-] Kurt@lemmy.one 4 points 2 years ago

Maybe it doesn't matter so much because image files are usually relatively small, but it seems kind of inefficient. I wonder if BitTorrent could help somehow.

[-] majorswitcher@lemmyfly.org 3 points 2 years ago

lots of traffic on many small files eventually uses more disk space and bandwidth. Depends on the growth of the instance

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