How come some images won't load from other Mastodon instances?

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@EliteMooseTaskForce Not common and never experienced that. Is it possible that happen because a server issue?
@PictoPulse356 Mmmm not quite sure actually. I am on a different Mastodon instance than you I think,
@EliteMooseTaskForce Yes you are in a different instance than me. The image that you cannot open is in the same instance as yours? Happens with all images?
@PictoPulse356 No, just images on other instances. I can see images on my own instance just fine.
@EliteMooseTaskForce Then I guess that is a problem of that instances, but not common for me

@EliteMooseTaskForce

There are some reasons, sometimes it's just the communication between the instances, sometimes it's that older pictures may have been set to be deleted after a certain amount of time. Since Mastodon instances are set up by people that most of the time doing this privately in their spare time unfortunate events can occur like a back up being corrupted and not discovered. I'm sure their are at least a good bunch more but that's what I got told so far/discovered on my own.