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1. Fabio Manganiello (blacklight@social.platypush.tech)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2024 00:44:36 UTC Fabio Manganiello

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   • Gabriel Pettier

   @tshirtman There are usually scheduled tootctl scripts that admins run to clean up stuff older than a certain threshold. But the cache folder itself can't simply be wiped without basically everything on the instance breaking (including emojis and avatars), and it's often very painful to fix it.

   It seems like one of those bad design decisions where the cache folder has been used as a dropbox for almost everything, including things that the software is supposed to store long-term.

   So even with the cronjobs scheduled to run every day and very little local traffic, an instance connected to a few big relays ends up having many GBs of media cache that it can't touch.

   • Nemo_bis (nemobis@mamot.fr)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2024 00:44:36 UTC Nemo_bis

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     @blacklight FWIW I use a variant of https://ricard.dev/improving-mastodons-disk-usage/ on #ResPublicae.

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   • Gabriel Pettier (tshirtman@mas.to)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2024 00:44:37 UTC Gabriel Pettier

     @blacklight I would be surprised if there is not some level of consolidation at some point, unless a community is not federating with the rest, their hosting costs will grow with the size of the fediverse, rather than its own size, so small instances will be less efficient.

     I have no experience with hosting mastodon, but the concept of a cache that you can never delete seems weird, surely things not accessed in a long time should be fine?