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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lower bandwidth for who? When images are cached on other instances, it allows two things:

  • Load sharing. The original instance doesn't have to serve the whole fediverse, but only its own users + 1 request per other lemmy instance.
  • Data availability through redundancy. If the original instance goes down, the cached image is still viewable on other instances.