gnu2, 1 month ago

I know on GNU Social we save a lot of disk space by not saving media locally and allowing the browser to fetch pics/videos from the original source.

stefan, 1 month ago

@gnu2 Interesting to see a different approach!

I think it makes sense to cache things temporarily, to help offset the load, but maybe Mastodon does it too aggressively.

Until recently, this is what my server disk space looked like.

https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/112140178007311059

I managed to get it closer to a peak at 50%, but it was a ton of work.

gnu2, 26 days ago

One of the other advantages of keeping images remote only is you aren't going to be legally responsible for storing illegal content on your server when one of your users follows some idiot on a different server who posts bad stuff.

stefan, 26 days ago

@gnu2 That is a very good point.

EccTM, 1 month ago

@stefan I've been using https://github.com/nanos/FediFetcher on my self-hosted Mastodon, it really has made a big difference.

Especially for the first day when I didn't have the scheduling set up correctly and it was just running non-stop 😳

stefan, 1 month ago

@EccTM Yes, I've played with this in the past, pretty good workaround. How's the impact on your disk space?

EccTM, 1 month ago

@stefan maybe a roughly 30% increase in Media Storage usage, but the jump in actual content (mainly replies to followed content) has been 10x and definitely worth it.

I found https://github.com/reddec/compose-scheduler while looking for a docker-but-not-docker-swarm cron solution too, so it was beneficial in all directions!

stefan, 1 month ago

@EccTM Thank you for sharing that! I've recently managed to clean out a big chunk of my storage after running my instance for a year, I might give this another try.