I am the admin of the newly created instance https://indie-ver.se/, and it’s been going great. But as I was looking to migrate all images to a S3 bucket, I noticed, the images take up more space than I had anticipated, a bit over 1 GB. And I know for a fact, that there has not been many images uploaded to this instance directly.
My best guess is, that it’s because lemmy by default creates local thumbnails for external posts, via. the setting “image_mode: StoreLinkPreviews”. Lemmy does allow me to disable this behavior, i.e. it would not cache the thumbnails on my instance, and instead have browsers request the image from the other instances.
The question is, what impact would that have on my users, and what impact would it have on the fedi-verse in general? I believe it would save me a lot on future storage costs, but I don’t know if it’s worth it.
- ssnoer
I’m a small instance.
In 3 years my pict-rs S3 bucket has grown to over 1.2TB
Yeah disable it. I’m not sure why I didn’t before.
Turning it off completely means that theoretically I could expose a users IP. Say I DM them a unique photo URL. Zero click and I got that. Lemmy’s default UI blocks that but some apps like Voyager don’t. Or you could reply to an old comment which makes it very likely they’ll be the only ones to see it.
I turned on proxy-ing.
I mean, 1.2TB isn’t that much in terms of price, but it’s still a heck of a lot. I’m gonna look into proxying, and disabling the caching. Thanks!
On S3 storage it’s a monthly cost, so it’ll add up over the years.
1.2 TB is a shitload
That’s about 1/8 my current total storage - in today’s drive costs that’s about $40 for just primary storage, and then 2x - 3x that for backup storage.
I just set up our S3 image storage, which costs us 6.27€ pr. TB. (with Hetzner)
Actually, how do you backup your images? I am bit unsure of what to do here, since the objects aren’t really managed by me.