Why won't fediverse instances bloat and pop? - eviltoast

If content on the fediverse is federated and copied to local instances, then won’t instances have to hold onto a forever increasing amount of data?

  • dudeami0@lemmy.dudeami.win
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    1 year ago

    Basically, data storage is cheap. Currently it can cost as low as $0.01/day for other instances to store the content that is being sent by the largest communities. Otherwise instances can clear out old data and let the larger instances be the archive hosts.