I am the admin of the newly created instance https://indie-ver.se/, and it’s been going great. But as I was looking to migrate all images to a S3 bucket, I noticed, the images take up more space than I had anticipated, a bit over 1 GB. And I know for a fact, that there has not been many images uploaded to this instance directly.
My best guess is, that it’s because lemmy by default creates local thumbnails for external posts, via. the setting “image_mode: StoreLinkPreviews”. Lemmy does allow me to disable this behavior, i.e. it would not cache the thumbnails on my instance, and instead have browsers request the image from the other instances.
The question is, what impact would that have on my users, and what impact would it have on the fedi-verse in general? I believe it would save me a lot on future storage costs, but I don’t know if it’s worth it.
- ssnoer
Hey there, do you have a Matrix account? Most of the active Lemmy instance admins have a group chat. Well two actually, one for technical chats and such and one where we ping each other about spam/problematic accounts/etc.
DM me @bdonvr:matrix.org and I can get you an invite (unless you’re already there under a different name and I missed it)
I will look into this. Thanks!