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Lemmy Support

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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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[–] Wander@yiffit.net 2 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 3 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).