• Septimaeus
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      2 months ago

      It’s old internet etiquette. I think the point is that hotlinking asks someone else to serve content without giving them traffic, if that makes sense.

    • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      It actually gets funnier than etiquette like the old poster mentioned. Some folks got pissed enough from people doing it that they would replace the images with goatse.