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  • The obvious way would be to just not cache content locally and always link to the source instance. While this would concentrate the strain immensely, it would also greatly decrease the storage space used by all other instances.

    There might also be other viable alternatives such as using a CDN and having it selectively cache content which is requested often etc.

    ~~As of now, Lemmy does not support either, though. ~~

    Edit: I want to clarify that I was partially wrong - Lemmy only locally caches content which is hosted on outside sites. It does (should?) not cache content that was directly uploaded to a Lemmy instance and just embeds the source media.