• homesnatch@lemm.ee
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    9 个月前

    It is my understanding that images are never federated and always reference from the source instance… But, the text is fully federated.

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      9 个月前

      That’s not true, images are also copied over. This is also for efficiency reasons and to spread the load of the image out to the servers. Sometimes you’ll see images not being copied to your own instance, but that might be because your instance has a lower image size limit than the instance it was uploaded to originally.