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meldrik@lemmy.wtf 2 days agoRemember, federation is *copying*, not creating some kind of remote view. If you’re federating videos, you’re letting other websites consume terabytes of your storage space amd bandwidth.
That is not true, at all.
Kichae@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
It’s literally what federation is.
meldrik@lemmy.wtf 1 day ago
Yes, video is streamed directly from its home server. There is a an option to mirror videos, so that your server will work as a seed, helping with bandwidth.
Images on Lemmy is also loaded from its home server, but there is a cache.