• dosesingko@dzle125.stream
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    1 year ago

    As a cheapskate selfhoster who can only afford a few gigabytes of storage, It may come to a point where 30GB would not be enough to host the entire post history of the lemmy fediverse once user activity rises, and only those with deep pockets would be able to host archives of lemmy posts, just like usenet servers.

    • BitSound@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Meh, storage is cheap, you can get TBs of storage for less than $100. If things really pick up and you’re a smaller Lemmy instance, I bet there’ll be some good ways to filter exactly what you store on the server.

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        Well, I am hosting this instance on a VPS, also given that I currently reside in a third world country, my pay is shit that I cannot afford more storage. If there comes a time that I would have to delete some posts and comments to free space, given that I still have not explored the Postgres database container, I hope the devs included some foreign keys on the comments table that would make deleting stuff way easier.

      • IverCoder@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Control over your own instance, and the ability to choose which instance you federate with.

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      1 year ago

      I have not used it in almost a week and was thinking about giving up and down loaded jerboa.

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      If this is like Mastodon, then I think the server will flush items cached from other instances when they reach 6 months old