thanks a lot !! much appreciated

thank you, much appreciated !!!

which visibility do you mean?

It does a lot of times if you reverse that

no, a random image I just now check was 3.3mb even. But you’re right, the image source does point to the origins server location… Then why are all those images stored on the server ?

When I look on my server in the volumes/pictrs folder, there are a LOT of images that I recognize from my feed. They are not from posts posted to my server but belong to posts of communities that I have subscribed to

yes. running a server costs money. I have lemmyfly.org running just 2 days now on digitalocean using a cheap 1GB ram, 25GB diskspace and 1000GB bandwidth for $7,- a month. Storing images on the server will eventually take up all space and bandwidth meaning you have to upscale -> pay more.

Using a different location for storing images and/ or videos is best to offload the instance !

yes, they are hosted on the server that is running the Lemmy instance. But every other instance that is linked to that instance will ‘scrape’ all posts incl images and store them on they’re own server. So posts and images are served from the instance you yourself are a member of