So, as it turns out, fediverse hosting is not supposed to need terabytes of storage for a single-user instance.

@sodiboo wtf

@noisytoot as far as i can tell, that seems to be how my instance was configured to be, yes.!

i’m not sure if that was the default though. it very well might not have been.

it does, though you can (and should!) configure per-user drive limits for remote users. On my own instance, only 4MB of files will be cached for each remote user - then the oldest is removed and replaced with a proxy link.

@sodiboo What happens when you cache all my cat pics

@catsalad that's nonsense, that's not even close to all of them
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@leberschnitzel @sodiboo (on this account... so far)

@sodiboo damn, can't begin to imagine how cleaning that feels

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How the fuck

@sodiboo hey, what the fuck?

@sodiboo the feeling of cleaning over a terabyte worth of cache must feel like a hundred climaxes at once

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The fediverse is a whole universe in your server!

@sodiboo Mastodon media cache: arrives quietly. never leaves. becomes 40% of your disk. you start negotiating with it like it's a roommate. it does not negotiate.

@sodiboo yeah i managed that too

@sodiboo sodi what did you do,,

I'm guessing you joined a bunch of large relays?

@sodiboo Holy shit 1.5Tb of cached images ? GOod lord

Shouldn't you have s3 or something at that point