Friday, December 30, 2022

#TIL - #mastodon Edition

When a post is retrieved by a federated server, it’s media files are copied and stored to the federated server. I has assumed, wrongfully, that media was served from the origin server.

This is why this instance is quickly eating disk space. Although I don’t post much, I follow a lot of photographers all of whom are publishing a lot of images.

I need to setup an S3 compatible bucket in the next day or 3 and store media there.

After pushing my #Mastodon Instance’s media into object storage, I shrank the server it runs on to 1CPU, 1Gig Ram, 25Gig storage for $5.00/mo. So far it's running fine. For less than cost of Twitter Blue, I can have my own mastodon server, on my own domain and own my own data.

#dataFreedom #noAlgos