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Kay Ohtie, Bat-Yotie! | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @digitalfox@yip.vulpine.engineerThere's some third-party service, I don't remember the name, but ...
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933fb84b | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @93068179 Is it https://jortage.com/ by any chance?

…I feel like that kind of tips the balance back towards less reliability, but as long as they aren't approaching Cloudflare levels of widespread adoption (and I don't think they are), then it's likely fine.  I recall vulpine.club using Jortage (the CDN URLs in my browser history still work!) and it was pretty solid.
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933fb84b | 1 years ago (raw) | full thread | reply | flag 
 While the "cache all the things" media storage behavior of Mastodon is a lot of duplication and increases needed storage space, it has been handy as I'm following folks who have instance outages.

E.g. a friend's been working on their ARM-based hosted at home instance, it's been going offline randomly (I was going to boost a post of theirs this evening, only to see it's offline again), but I can still catch up on their posts - including photos - as my instance has been online meanwhile.

(I'm not against more control for server admins, but I do think "cache by default" is a good policy.  There's also privacy and security concerns around targeting exploits to certain IPs or devices.)