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RE: ATT: STEEMIT COMMUNITY If You Are Using A Free Image Hosting Site To Upload Your Photos:: What happens if the site shuts down?
As I understand it, Steemit copies the post image(s) to their "centralized servers" and the associated Steemit links are then persisted on the Steem blockchain.
One of the problems with this is that Steemit is a centralized corporation that could potentially be served with a cease and desist order from, say, a government agency.
Apparently, actually hosting the images on the Steem blockchain would likely result in scaling issues for the Steem witness nodes.
Maybe some kind of sharding approach could be used to mitigate the scaling problem?
If you click on the link I shared @frankswi has another possible solution. It's easier if you read what he has to say and the comments below, and we can go from there. Thanks for taking interest!
I looked into what you said @cognoscere and found this article: https://steemit.com/censorship/@timcliff/reminder-only-text-is-saved-on-the-blockchain Which states that only the links are saved, not the images themselves. So if your image hosting site went under, your pictures would indeed disappear. There are a couple of ideas that are going back and forth on @frankswi 's page.
To clarify too though - there is the Steem blockchain, and there are the Steemit servers. The Steem blockchain is the decentralized network where all of the posts/votes/etc. are stored. The Steemit.com servers are hosted by Steemit, Inc. Steemit, Inc does store a local copy of the images - so if your third party hosting site goes down, the images for the posts should still load, but Steemit, Inc can be censored - so images stored there are not as "safe" as what is on the blockchain.
Gotcha...did you see the link Craig-grant gave me? That appears to settle the issue, haha! Besides, my only real concern was that the pictures could disappear from the posts, leaving holes and lots of work. I've been happily chatting back and forth with the lovely @merej99, so thank you!
One possible solution to go around the potential censorship would be to use IPFS...I think
Thanks for the tip!
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