When Beehaw was first launched our disk usage (physical space on the server) was approximately 45%.
Right now we are up to 72% and this will continue to climb over time.
At the moment, I can only see two options. Firstly, go up an additional tier with our server host which would increase the monthly hosting cost.
Secondly, figure out a way to remove old and inactive posts. Hopefully, there is a batch process for this or something similar. I'm not an expert in this area, sadly.
What are your thoughts?
In my wholly personal opinion, content on Lemmy is transient enough to warrant being deleted after a period of time if it hasn't generated any discussion. It's the discussion that matters, after all. Though, I haven't looked much into how Lemmy works under the hood and I have no idea how much this sort of content would actually amount to in terms of disk usage. Intuitively it doesn't seem like it'd take a lot of space to store.
I like this option.
Also have folks switch to Imgur or alt as the image host instead of beehaw?