If I were to create my own instance federated with all the other instances, as of today, how much data would I be storing, since I would make a copy of all the content?
I know this will vary a lot, but I’m looking for a ballpark figure to have an idea. I don’t think it would be a lot, but I can’t find an estimate anywhere.
Reposted from https://lemmy.world/post/55030 as I think this community is probably a better fit
Also it doesn’t copy the images as Mastodon does, only the text objects.
oh right, that’s a big one there. that images stay on the origin instance and they linked from there
I actually kind of like how Akkoma does this. It creates a constant size proxy with nginx, and all the images come from predetermined host instead of all over the net. It’s a good mixture of not using tens of gigabytes of space and still spreading the load a bit between the instances.
For this reason, I assume it should be feasible to self-host an instance that sync with most communities.
For reference, Wikipedia (en) takes up just over 20 GB (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia), so I assume much less than that for Lemmy (with the current userbase).