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Unfortunately, technically, that sort of is how the Fediverse works. I'd love for there to be federation of attachments (aka art) but there is no standard for that. BUT ← Much Fediverse server software allows for some form of media caching. If 10000 people on mastodon.social go to look at an image, it will be downloaded once, then served from mastodon.social from there. So at least by convention (usually?) you only have to serve files to thousands of instances, who cache it from there. Personally I'd love some sort of swarming caching solution that single user instances could participate in collectively.