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?

    • dog@yiffit.net
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      1 year ago

      i mean, it depends on how they are hosting the instance, i guess. it would certainly take up storage space wherever they host the instance. you could always try to upload images somewhere else like imgur and then link it to help not take up their instance storage

    • majorswitcher@lemmyfly.org
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      1 year ago

      yes. running a server costs money. I have lemmyfly.org running just 2 days now on digitalocean using a cheap 1GB ram, 25GB diskspace and 1000GB bandwidth for $7,- a month. Storing images on the server will eventually take up all space and bandwidth meaning you have to upscale -> pay more.

      Using a different location for storing images and/ or videos is best to offload the instance !