• pwndave
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    4 months ago

    The image provider of Reddit doesn’t hide images behind an API or any authorization layer. It’s basically free especially if the Lemmy instance has a flat fee for bandwidth usage

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        APIs can be used to fetch specific data. A link to an image is literally just a link to an image, the server isn’t having to gather the data to send like an API would.

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          The thumbnail, which I didn’t bother to check until a few minutes ago, offered the impression that Lemmy fetches data differently. It’s not a thumbnail, it’s the full size image. Every comment here has fleshed out my understanding a bit more. Thank you.