[ailurooo]

With Akkoma/Pleroma there's a separate setting for enabling this feature. This is why people choose platforms other than mastodon for the fedi instance as mastodon assumes you have large amounts of resources to throw at hosting. I've gone out of my way to enable the caching of others instances media as it's not uncommon for instances to die and just never come back, and i'd rather keep a historical record of things i interacted with historically