How much storage is used on average for a Lemmy instance? - eviltoast

If I were to create my own instance federated with all the other instances, as of today, how much data would I be storing, since I would make a copy of all the content?

I know this will vary a lot, but I’m looking for a ballpark figure to have an idea. I don’t think it would be a lot, but I can’t find an estimate anywhere.

Reposted from https://lemmy.world/post/55030 as I think this community is probably a better fit

  • poVoq@slrpnk.net
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    1 year ago

    Our smaller instance that has been federating for a bit more than a year now (started in March 2022) is now at 2.4gb for the database and 7gb for the image storage (which probably needs some clean-up from previous image spam waves).

    • utzer [Friendica]@social.yl.ms
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      1 year ago

      @poVoq @ndr this will surely grow a lot, if you look at other activity pub compatible systems you’ll see a huge grow, it depends on the retention of “old” post and media, if you say just store all for a year you might keep it smaller, but if you want to replace #Reddit or so it would be better to keep stuff a bit longer, but then on the other hand the #Fediverse is probable not meant to store stuff for long term.

      On my Friendica node I have a rather short period to store foreign posts and media, and my storage is only about 47 GB, most of the media is stored in the database as well (easier and faster to backup, much slower to retrieve) and it is a single user instance with just a handful of bots besides the account I write from.