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pict-rs volume growing fast (derp.foo)

submitted 1 year ago by irdc@derp.foo to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

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I’ve recently switched from a self-built Lemmy without pict-rs to the standard docker image that has pict-rs included. However, I’m noticing that the amount of pictures pict-rs stores on my instance is quite high. Any ideas? Is Lemmy preemptively mirroring all images in all posts?

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[–] hitagi@ani.social 4 points 1 year ago

You can have pict-rs compress your images to WEBP and at a lower resolution.

[–] chrisbit@cocte.au 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I would suggest migrating your pictrs to use object storage, which is often a tenth of the price of block storage.

[–] Wander@yiffit.net 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lemmy only stores images that are uploaded to your instance and thumbnails for external links. You'll have to switch to object storage eventually.

[–] usernotfound@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

What the Wandermeister over here said.

Object storage generally is much cheaper than vm disk space (I got 1TB for $5/month at vultr). And the sooner you do it, the better - the migration process took 3 hours for me yesterday, transferring just over 102k files (34 GB).

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