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Mastodon will very likely succumb to the same fate as Usenet, unless traffic/transit costs become irrelevant soon. Also, it would greatly benefit from a proper
by lazyjones 9y ago
Mastodon will very likely succumb to the same fate as Usenet, unless traffic/transit costs become irrelevant soon.
Also, it would greatly benefit from a proper client that keeps a backup for all your posts and account data. The instance I joined went down permanently, it seems.
- kstrauser 9y agoMedia is cached locally on the followers' servers by default. If you follow me, and I upload a photo, my server will send it to yours. When you view it, you'll see the copy from your server, not mine. This is changeable per-instance. For example, I don't want to host a lot of hentai or lolicon, even if my users were into that kind of stuff. I can configure my instance specifically not to cache media from servers that host it.