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How much storage is used on average for a Lemmy instance? (self.selfhost)

submitted 2 years ago by ndr to c/[email protected]

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If I were to create my own instance federated with all the other instances, as of today, how much data would I be storing, since I would make a copy of all the content?

I know this will vary a lot, but I’m looking for a ballpark figure to have an idea. I don’t think it would be a lot, but I can’t find an estimate anywhere.

Reposted from https://lemmy.world/post/55030 as I think this community is probably a better fit

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Keeping more of the history is probably a good thing if we want to replace Reddit. Think of all the homelab/server posts you've used that are over a year old. Good info can last a while.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@sedawk probably... maybe threads can be closed and then some data can be removed.

This is a culprit of the Fediverse players, they're unlikely to keep all data forever (as some services do, at least until they're gone for good like Google Waves). Storage costs money, the need will grow forever, maybe some more cost effective storage can be used for old data/posts/threads/media, just like internet archive does, they don't used fast storage, so it takes seconds to load old website versions. But that also seems like a big leap for amateur technology enthusiasts (like most admins of Fediverse systems are).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Does the Fediverse not allow closing out threads after a while? I just assumed they had an "age out" feature.

Once something ages out it could be dumped as static data basically and compressed even.