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?

  • poVoq@slrpnk.net
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    1 year ago

    Sadly not yet. Hopefully this will be improved in the future.

    However, this sounds like you used one of these follow everything bots, which is just a bad idea as it results in these kind of issues.

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      1 year ago

      I did but “all” is useless without it and having to use a separate website to discover communities just doesn’t make sense.

      I think at some point I will figure something out.