• T156@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The instances have some fairly big servers, but yes, if everyone started posting a lot of images, it would eat up a lot of server space, and I think Lemmy.world had a lot warning notice recently requesting users avoid uploading them to they didn’t fill up and break the server.

    It’s probably one of the biggest mistakes that Reddit made, in addition to hosting video. Hosting and serving images and video is expensive.