Is the media downloaded/cached to the federated instance or will it go down with the hoster?
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It goes down with the instance. In case of posts, there’s only a very low resolution cache kept. Images are not federated, just links to them.
Theoretically you could do overly compressed JPEGs in base64 as
data:URI or just other tiny images like I’ve did in this comment for demonstration, but this is stupid.I’d recommend just using Imgur or similar.
Edit: Here’s an example post with image hosted on dead instance: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/278052
It’s gone. Reduced to atoms.
