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?

  • Lodion 🇦🇺@aussie.zone
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    2 years ago

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

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      2 years ago

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