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Is there any benefit to host my own instance?

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I’m up to about 300MB of disk usage after a day of hosting my own. Curious to see how it grows.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

haha better than the 12GB and rising of my single-user Mastodon instance. And this is with deleting my media cache every night.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Mastodon is aggressive with caching media. Akkoma is more lightweight

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The pictures folder on my instance is at 1.3GB after two days. It's just me and my friend. About how many communities are you subscribed to?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
  1. Some of those are lemmy.ml and not a lot of comments, etc have synced yet.
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Gotcha, thanks. I'm at about 70 so that makes sense then.

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

Up to 400MB after two days here. I took a look at the code and it looks like Lemmy keeps all ActivityPub JSON for 6 months. It would be nice if it was possible to shorten that.

I'm still happy that I'm hosting my own instance, but I hope this thing doesn't get too big!