Post #1274597
2026-02-25 09:58 UTC
@Amorpheus The media has to be hosted somewhere. Forcing external hosting would largely mean relying on big corporate entities...which is what most folks here are trying to get away from.
If Mastodon refused to support it, that wouldn't align with user desire or expectation.
Besides, for most servers, the hosting of posts and media created or interacted with by their own users isn't the issue; it's storing all the extra stuff that originated on other servers. That's wasted resources.
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@Texan_Reverend@kind.social 2026-02-25 09:58
@Amorpheus Text interaction being your preference is fine, but the Fediverse is much more than that, with entire platforms dedicated to images, video, and so on. Even if it was text only, that wouldn't solve one of the main issues: database storage costs. A server's database has to store the contents, statistics, interactions, and all other details of every post which said server ever encounters. Being able to more easily clean up that database of unwanted posts would be great.