this post was submitted on 22 Feb 2024
635 points (98.2% liked)

Fediverse

28396 readers
425 users here now

A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).

If you wanted to get help with moderating your own community then head over to !moderators@lemmy.world!

Rules

Learn more at these websites: Join The Fediverse Wiki, Fediverse.info, Wikipedia Page, The Federation Info (Stats), FediDB (Stats), Sub Rehab (Reddit Migration), Search Lemmy

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] uis@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

I don't get why the Fediverse decided to take on the legal risk and storage cost of downloading every attachment to local servers to be honest.

Privacy. Lemmy leaks your ip all over the internet. Mastodon does server fetch.