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

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      Question if you know: does a lemmy instance have to be publically accessable to work? Like, if I make an instance on my homelab can the instance “fetch” content and serve it faster locally? Could I reply to a post and have others see it? Etc

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      im running 50 users right now, subbed to A LOT of communities, seeing db growth of about 100mb per day.

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          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

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            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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              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…

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                Ooh, that’s a really good idea, I need a federation helper bot/account when I start self-hosting a Lemmy instance!

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                  Yeah it’s not automated or anything, I just pop an incognito window and use it when there is a communitI think is worth seeing sometimes in “All” (or just for archiving purposes) but don’t want to clutter “Subscribed”. I may make something to auto-subscribe to communities meeting some criteria or something at some point in the future…