Isn't it much more efficient to link (rather than to mirror) ? What am I missing here?
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This is exactly my same doubt.
This is the answer I got from my admin: «toots are stored locally for a simple reason: let’s say a toot goes viral, then hundreds of instances would have to upload the message with photos or video from the unfortunate person’s server, which could collapse. Uploading a copy locally saves a lot of stress on the servers.»
What do you think?
Makes sense for viral content, but most content isn't viral.
I once made a tool that indexes every image posted on the fediverse. It ran from Jan 2019 to about August 2019. I don't remember the exact numbers but including the original full size, the thumbnail, the meta data including the author idkey, profile, and avatar, was sum total under a few gigs. It was indexing something like 2-8 images a second (it was highly variable).
Of course, the fediverse is bigger now. I wonder what it would be.
Lemmy only mirrors text, which takes almost no space at all. What does take a lot of space is media, so mirroring that can fill up your disk really fast. Inthat case, it is necessary to delete old, cached media which can easily be automated.
I was following some Birdsitelive accounts from Mastodon, Admins regularly block every Birdsitelive instances they see being used there.
No you are not right. It's not a problem. Pleroma doesn't even download the media, Mastodon does but it's not that much. Each person follows just a few hundred accounts, they don't produce too much content. The fedivers is pretty large already and it hasn't become a problem.