14 days later, my postgres directory was 12GB. I was still on 18.1. Updated to 18.3 just now. Postgres directory was downscaled to 2.6GB !!! Thank you Lemmy dev’s and contributors !!

pictrs isn’t even taking up that much space, postgres takes up most !

# du -sch volumes/*
8.0K	volumes/lemmy-ui
3.4G	volumes/pictrs
8.2G	volumes/postgres
12G	total

I also noticed the logs were growing and taking up quite some gb’s. I’ve used truncate to make the syslog smaller and journalctl vacuum to keep that smaller

i’m trying to find documentation for this config but can’t find any. Do you have a link maybe ?

thanks for your detailed how-to ! Will try this, hopefully it holds 2 more weeks I’m leaving for holidays now :)

oh it’s visible because I’m admin/ mod ?

no, a random image I just now check was 3.3mb even. But you’re right, the image source does point to the origins server location… Then why are all those images stored on the server ?

When I look on my server in the volumes/pictrs folder, there are a LOT of images that I recognize from my feed. They are not from posts posted to my server but belong to posts of communities that I have subscribed to

Thats the way the decentralized fediverse works (I think!) let me know if I’m wrong

only pictures and posts that the instance-member are subscribed to, and from the moment they interacted with it. But yes, I’m curious to see where this goes.

I noticed it when I was looking in the database and disk on my instance, where there are already thousands of posts and more then a thousand images - while my own instance only has a couple of posts and images

lots of traffic on many small files eventually uses more disk space and bandwidth. Depends on the growth of the instance

yes. running a server costs money. I have lemmyfly.org running just 2 days now on digitalocean using a cheap 1GB ram, 25GB diskspace and 1000GB bandwidth for $7,- a month. Storing images on the server will eventually take up all space and bandwidth meaning you have to upscale -> pay more.

Using a different location for storing images and/ or videos is best to offload the instance !

yes, they are hosted on the server that is running the Lemmy instance. But every other instance that is linked to that instance will ‘scrape’ all posts incl images and store them on they’re own server. So posts and images are served from the instance you yourself are a member of

Yes indeed, request only showed up in overview once I clicked the confirm link from the email. Good idea about mentioning it in that text!

agree, there is quite a learning curve. I still don’t get why I can’t see comments to my post on a different server. But when I log in on another server thats also reading from that community I see the comments there

A user subscribes to a community, not the instance. I’ve emptied the Allowed list and now the All communities list is growing as users search for community-urls on other servers.

On browse.feddit.de you can find a list of all communities together, don’t know hoe they do that

I do, and looking forward to contribute. I’m not a UX designer though…

it definitely needs some UX attention

yep, same issue I had! the link :) https://lemmy.one/post/36440

after changing the docker-compose.yml file you have to destroy and up the postfix container

docker-compose stop postfix && docker-compose rm postfix
docker-compose up -d

after changing your lemmy.hjson file, just restart the lemmy container.

where are you running your environment ? I’m on DigitalOcean for example since last night, found out this morning that digitalocean blocks smtp port 25 to prevent being used for spammers. when checking the logs, also check the postfix container, that’s the email server. if that reads it can’t connect you probably have the same issue. see this thread for setting up sendgrid as a relay to your postfix mail server