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What is the long-term storage plan for Lemmy instances? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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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[–] dasseeman@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (14 children)

I tought about it too as web is based on quantity rather than quality. "Will servers begin to periodically purge old content?" In my opinion, it's the best option. Instances can set up there own rules, ie oldest postes && least liked First, then least commented, then bookmarked etc... I m sure I won't miss this post in one month or even one day.

[–] Boinketh@lemm.ee 30 points 1 year ago (5 children)

The thing about these forums is that they act as a big repository of content and information. Purging old content ruins that and makes Lemmy a lot less valuable as a whole.

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Honestly selective purging might work. There definitely some communities we should keep but if you purge like !memes, I don't think anyone would care.

[–] dasseeman@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Exactly, all content does not need to be saved. In terms of server's cost and earth's cost. Sustainability is not an option.

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