Jan Wildeboer 😷
Dear other #mastodon instance admins - can you share some numbers/experiences on storage used per user/instance? I am trying to find out if I am an exception (47 GB total storage used on a single user instance where I, the single user, have 4500 followers and follow 900 people with content retention set to 5 days) or if these numbers are quite normal. And did the ratio GB per user/instance rise significantly with the current wave of new accounts? Please boost and discuss if you want to :)
CSTeacher@jwildeboer I am not running an instance yet, but it seems to me #mastodon pulls all media from all the people you follow constantly and retains it for 5 days (as per your setting). If those you follow post a lot of images and videos, it is plausible this is normal. I think I saw some advice that media storage is recommended to be placed externally, e.g. S3, Google drive etc.
Jonathan Dowland@csteacher @jwildeboer now I’m wondering what the point would be of a set of disparate instances all caching Fediverse data in separate S3 buckets. Alternatively don’t cache at all?
@jmtd I don't host mastodon just yet - is 'no media caching' an option? I think that would be best, since any mastodon server I might be registered on is practically as far away as any other mastodon server (where media I am looking at might be served from); it's not like most people's own mastodon server is closest to them (and therefore would make a difference to host media locally), right?
@csteacher i did host my own four-ish years ago but I’m afraid I can’t remember if that was an option (then)