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ELI5: How does Lemmy operate? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by Senseibull@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Would be helpful for most new users to understand how Lemmy works and how the different hosts interact with each other in a basic way.

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[–] pancake@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Only text is mirrored, images and video are hosted on the instance where they were posted, so overall it's really cheap to store all of that, and even more so if the load is distributed across many instances.