Comment on Manga General Discussion Thread - RIP MangaDex Edition [2025, Week 21]
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks agoProbably however Mastodon does it, but for more than four pictures at once.
What’d be great is if cross-site reblogs became independent. E.g. if someone posts on instance A and someone else references it on instance B, and the original post goes down on instance A, the copy on instance B is unaffected. And is possibly treated as original to instance B, if someone references the copy on instance A, and there’s no working link to an original post on instance A.
creamlike504@jlai.lu 5 weeks ago
Is that how it works? I thought content is only hosted on the original server, and each instance only shows a temporary copy at best.
If every instance is duplicating the content of every other instance, wouldn’t they crumble under the hosting costs in… hours?
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
That is not how it works; it is what I would like.
And for a niche like exclusively hosting several dozen pages of translated comics at a time, every instance duplicating the whole database would not take that much space. Even if it’s only a cache - one terabyte would go a looong way. Certainly long enough for anything popular to be recognized as missing and manually rehosted.