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

submitted 1 year 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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[–] alex@agora.nop.chat 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My understanding is that images don't federate by default and you'll load the image from whichever server it was uploaded to initially. Uploading an image here in the comment certainly does that:

This post that shows in my instance loads it's image from feddit.uk, even when it shows on my own instance rather than on this URL:

https://feddit.uk/post/5813

Looking at the federation docs, I'm pretty confident that a link to the image is the only thing going through. If someone uploads that on the server directly, that'll be a link to that server, but it may be a link to Imgur or something too.