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Does lemmy store remote instance's images? (kale.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I thought lemmy would only cache text from remote instances to avoid replicating images across the lemmyverse. But I'm seeing a lot of images stored in volumes/pictrs/files/ so maybe that's not the case? Anyone have any insight into this?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Your instance will locally generate and save thumbnails for external links in posts.
Also user avatars, community icons etc for your instance.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Ah, great thanks. That sounds much smaller in file size than mirroring all embedded content.