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What is the long-term storage plan for Lemmy instances? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Kalcifer@lemmy.world to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
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Over time, Lemmy instances are going to keep aquiring more, and more data. Even if, in the best case, they are not caching content and they are just storing the data posted to communities local to the server, there will still be a virtually limitless growth in server storage requirements. Eventually, it may get to a point where it is no longer economically feesible to host all of the infrastructure to keep expanding the server's storage. What happens at this point? Will servers begin to periodically purge old content? I have concerns that there will be a permanent horizon (as Lemmy becomes more popular, the rate of growth in storage requirements will also increase, thereby reducing the distance to this horizon) over which old -- and still very useful -- data will cease to exist. Is there any plan to archive this old data?

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[โ€“] BaroqueInMind@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sounds like the federated instances should consider opening up for donations and paid features like comment awards and animated shit like Discord or Reddit.

[โ€“] Kalcifer@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I worry that these sorts of things would end up turning the site into a popularity contest (or, well, more of a popularity contest than these sorts of sites already are. That being said, I'm quite proud of Lemmy, currently, as it appears to be resisting that). Also I'm not entirely sure how things like payed comment awards would work with everything being federated.