Media content caching strategy · Issue #1847 · mastodon/mastodonRight now, Mastodon downloads local copies of: avatar header status media attachments On these local copies, Mastodon can perform operations like resizing, optimizing, creating thumbnails that fit Mastodon's UI - because the origin of the content can provide media in super large sizes that would severely impact end-user's bandwidth and browser performance if just displayed verbatim. Moreover, band
