Just started self hosting this instance. Nothing on the docs mentioned anything about storage considerations.

  • terribleplan
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    1 year ago

    It’s all about how many communities your user(s) subscribe to since your instance basically acts as a mirror for those.

    My instance has been running for 23 days, and I am pretty much the only active local user:

    7.3G    pictrs
    5.3G    postgres
    

    edit: I may have a slight Reddit Lemmy problem

    • @[email protected]
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      111 year ago

      So if you’re the only user (let’s assume for ease) then, that represents all the updates (posts, comments, votes) from each community that you are subscribed to?

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        161 year ago

        Yeah, and I purposely subscribe to (or sometimes have a dedicated “federation helper bot” account I run subscribe to) most of the most popular communities on the most popular instances so I can get a decent sampling of what’s going on in the fediverse on the “All” feed. So I assume my storage usage is maybe a bit higher than what an “average” single-user instance may be…

        • @[email protected]
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          51 year ago

          lmao same here. I have a spare account that I use to sub to everything worth subbing to. I haven’t automated it yet though.

        • @[email protected]
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          31 year ago

          Ooh, that’s a really good idea, I need a federation helper bot/account when I start self-hosting a Lemmy instance!

          • terribleplan
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            31 year ago

            Yeah it’s not automated or anything, I just pop an incognito window and use it when there is a communitI think is worth seeing sometimes in “All” (or just for archiving purposes) but don’t want to clutter “Subscribed”. I may make something to auto-subscribe to communities meeting some criteria or something at some point in the future…

    • @[email protected]
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      31 year ago

      Do you also post stuff? I mean my instance is only about an hour old, but I’ve subscribed to some communities, yet I don’t see the picture service consuming the S3 storage I’ve configured

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        131 year ago

        Lemmy caches every thumbnail of every post for like a month or something using Pictrs, so that storage will eventually hit a sort of equilibrium and start growing much more slowly (only reflecting post/thumbnail volume during the cache time).

        Between profile images, community banners/icons, post images etc. there are probably a few dozen images that will be sticking around for the long haul at the moment.

      • @[email protected]
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        51 year ago

        Your instance only caches thumbnails, so it won’t take much space. The full images are served from the remote instance. So you basically only store whatever your users upload.