• mesamunefire@piefed.socialEnglish
    7·
    10 hours ago

    Its a feature not a bug :)

    My issue is lemmy.world (and other bigger instances) is so big that it was just slamming my tiny personal lemmy then later piefed server, so I had to give up. There was a HUGE queue of changes for my little instance of one user.

    • Dave@lemmy.nzEnglish
      2·
      8 hours ago

      Instances only send you content for communities you (or someone on your instance) are subscribed to. If you don’t care about politics you could probably subscribe to a bunch of smaller communities and not have an issue.

      In general though Lemmy needs a lot of disk space, best to configure pictrs not to store images which helps a lot, but the database can still be huge.

      • nutomic@lemmy.mlEnglish
        5·
        6 hours ago

        By far the most space is taken up by votes. You can disable votes (1.0 will have more options), or delete them directly from the database.

        • Dave@lemmy.nzEnglish
          2·
          6 hours ago

          Yeah I guess the issue is that votes are the thing that makes Lemmy what it is. Without them it’s just a stream of posts with no ranking. Hard to avoid needing that space.

          It’s not a huge amount of space, but if you’re on a cheap VPS then they don’t come with much space.

          • nutomic@lemmy.mlEnglish
            4·
            6 hours ago

            You could write a query to votes for remote posts older than 6 months, or something similar.

            • mesamunefire@piefed.socialEnglish
              1·
              4 hours ago

              Or instead of individual votes do a dump like an rss. Like only update when I ask every 10 minutes or so. Get everything from x - y time and just give me the totals. Probably only good for smaller instances though.

  • lurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    9·
    11 hours ago

    the problem with small instances is they die more frequently. sometimes without prior notice. i lost a few accounts that way. that lemmy server list said it wouldn’t matter what instance i chose, but it really did. with this account, it’s the longest time i had one.

    however, all big instances started small. so we also need ppl to grow small ones. it’s not an easy choice.

    • KSP Atlas@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      4·
      8 hours ago

      When I first signed up for this instance, it had a monthly users number of maybe like a dozen people, now it has a lot more