It would definitely be nice to have some image retention policy. If an image hasnt been accessed in say 6 months its probably safe to say I won’t care about it. And if need be it can pull it from the original server again.

weird. doesnt work for me either. Lemmy.world had some recent downtime maybe some functionality is still broken atm.

it could be that the two instances cant talk to each other, or are perhaps rate limited. Are you able to connect from a different source instance?

You might need to click search a couple times. It usually only takes a few seconds but if the other server is down or they can’t otherwise can’t communicate temporarily or otherwise you might not be able to find it.