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It goes down with the instance. In case of posts, there's only a very low resolution cache kept. Images are not federated, just links to them.
Theoretically you could do overly compressed JPEGs in base64 as
data:URI or just other tiny images like I've did in this comment for demonstration, but this is stupid.I'd recommend just using Imgur or similar.
Edit: Here's an example post with image hosted on dead instance: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/278052
It's gone. Reduced to atoms.
Wondering if there is a P2P distributed storage solution we could be using?
If something is accessed it should be stored on the home instance it is accessed from. IMO else this whole defederation nakes no sense if someone does selfhost it, notices it's too storage/compute heavy and kills the whole server.