1mo ago

Just a note: When lemm.ee shuts down, all the images will break.

Consider editing a few of your top posts to an archived version.

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If you used https://postimages.org/ or any other third party hoster, you should be fine
- Do you know how it is with the thumbnails for third party hosters? Do they generate as lemm.ee thumbnails?
  
  Not sure to be honest.
What do you mean? Don't instances keep a local copy of images from other instances?
- Not most, they do keep tiny thumbnails though.
  Servers can:
  Proxy images
  Save them locally
  just link to them.
  Most do the latter as its cheaper.
  
  Interesting, thanks! I did not realize that.
  What do you mean to edit your top posts to an archived version?
I think this should be added to the pinned post. The current wording is a bit misleading:
Because of how Lemmy is built, everything posted on lemm.ee will still be accessible from other instances, even after we go offline.
I forgot doing this before feddit.de wasn't reachable anymore which results in most image posts as @d_k_bo@feddit.de being broken whithout any possibility to change their URL.

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