If I were to create my own instance federated with all the other instances, as of today, how much data would I be storing, since I would make a copy of all the content?

I know this will vary a lot, but I’m looking for a ballpark figure to have an idea. I don’t think it would be a lot, but I can’t find an estimate anywhere.

Reposted from https://lemmy.world/post/55030 as I think this community is probably a better fit

    • pimeys@lemmy.nauk.io
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      1 year ago

      I actually kind of like how Akkoma does this. It creates a constant size proxy with nginx, and all the images come from predetermined host instead of all over the net. It’s a good mixture of not using tens of gigabytes of space and still spreading the load a bit between the instances.

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        1 year ago

        @pimeys @knighthawk0811 yes, that sounds more privacy friendly, #Friendica also has a proxy function, it is also important that the proxy is just accessible for logged in users… so it get’s more complicated. Otherwise bad people will posts media some place and link it in scam pages/emails and such.

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          1 year ago

          @knighthawk0811 @pimeys I think the proxy does not really store the media files anymore, it just retrieves them and serves them… because of the potential danger by scammers. So it protects the users privacy but does not enable people to exploit the proxy as as host for scam.