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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's why you shouldn't use external image hosters but embed the picture the normal way. Then if the lemmy instance dies then the screenshot dies with it but not seperatelly.

[โ€“] Cyyy 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

well, often webprojects don't have that much money and hosting communitys who post a lot of images, videos etc. costs a lot of money. because that a lot of users use imagehosters to bypass this issue.