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Prune pict-rs on local instance? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I'm running a small instance just for myself and a friend. We basically use it to access the Lemmy fediverse.

I was under the impression that our instance would not download imagery that was not hosted on it but the pict-rs "files" directory ended up with 45 gig of data which ultimately filled up the VPS storage space.

Is there a command that I can automate to prune this regularly or does anyone have a solution?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Imagine if media in Lemmy was all hosted in a distributed network filesystem like Iroh, where instances only function as inserters and exit nodes for that media.

This way, smaller instances can have a smaller cache corresponding to the media that was actually needed by it (recently). And independent peers can help by participating in the distributed file-system network without running instances themselves.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Woah, that seems really neat! What would be the cons to doing this (other than the implementation time and effort of course)?