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?
5 Comments
chrisbit@cocte.au · 6 pts · 3y
I would suggest migrating your pictrs to use object storage, which is often a tenth of the price of block storage.
hitagi@ani.social · 4 pts · 3y
You can have pict-rs compress your images to WEBP and at a lower resolution.
Wander@yiffit.net · 3 pts · 3y
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 pts · 3y
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).