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

    • terribleplan
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      2 years 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

      • @Pleonasm@programming.dev
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        02 years 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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          02 years 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…