Is there any benefit to host my own instance?

  • rs5th
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    131 year ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      91 year ago

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

      • KNova
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        61 year ago

        Mastodon is aggressive with caching media. Akkoma is more lightweight

    • @[email protected]
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      1 year ago

      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?

      • rs5th
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        41 year ago
        1. Some of those are lemmy.ml and not a lot of comments, etc have synced yet.
    • gabe565
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      21 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!