Why won't fediverse instances bloat and pop? - eviltoast

If content on the fediverse is federated and copied to local instances, then won’t instances have to hold onto a forever increasing amount of data?

  • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    1 year ago

    Only text content is fully federated. Image posts are cached on other instances, but only the home instance keeps a “permanent” copy of the image