As the question states. I have the skiils and know how to setup a new instsnce and from looking through the documentation its relatively straight forward. Im just wondering would it actually help the fediverse and lemmy as a whole? There seems to already be plenty of instances to choose from. What are your guys thoughts?

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    Running the Instance for 3 Days now. Added multiple new Subs and cleared pictrs (but not Postgres) folder yesterday. My instance is mostly used by me.

    87M ./pictrs

    335M ./postgres

    Edit: Small update. Original Post was posted ~9AM. Now its ~11AM

    112M ./pictrs

    351M ./postgres

    As far as i know, images shouldn’t be stored locally if not posted from the local instance. This looks to be a proxing problem as far as i understood.

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      what happens when you clear pictrs? you mean just deleting the folder? does that break stuff?

      for comparison, my instance is only communities and no users (FAQ here: https://programming.dev/post/442419 )

      it’s about 5 days old but not much activity

      # du -h --max-depth=2 ./
      73M     ./volumes/postgres
      7.8M    ./volumes/pictrs
      8.0K    ./volumes/lemmy-ui
      81M     ./volumes
      81M     ./
      

      the latest backup is only 7.4 MB zipped, I use this backup script

      #! /bin/bash
      # https://join-lemmy.org/docs/administration/backup_and_restore.html#a-sample-backup-script
      now=$(date +"%Y-%m-%d_%H.%M.%S")
      
      cd ~/lemmy && (docker-compose exec -T postgres pg_dumpall -c -U lemmy 1> dump.sql 2> dump.errors)
      cd ~/lemmy && zip -r9 ~/bak-lemmy-$now.zip ./ --exclude "volumes/postgres/*"
      rm -f ~/lemmy/dump.sql
      

      like I said though, not much activity

      and here’s how my backup zip files have grown in size over time

      6.6M bak-lemmy-2023-07-08_03.00.01.zip
      6.6M bak-lemmy-2023-07-08_06.00.01.zip
      6.6M bak-lemmy-2023-07-08_09.00.01.zip
      6.6M bak-lemmy-2023-07-08_12.00.01.zip
      6.6M bak-lemmy-2023-07-08_15.00.01.zip
      6.6M bak-lemmy-2023-07-08_18.00.01.zip
      6.6M bak-lemmy-2023-07-08_21.00.01.zip
      6.6M bak-lemmy-2023-07-09_00.00.02.zip
      6.6M bak-lemmy-2023-07-09_03.00.01.zip
      6.6M bak-lemmy-2023-07-09_06.00.01.zip
      6.6M bak-lemmy-2023-07-09_09.00.01.zip
      6.6M bak-lemmy-2023-07-09_12.00.01.zip
      6.6M bak-lemmy-2023-07-09_15.00.01.zip
      6.6M bak-lemmy-2023-07-09_18.00.01.zip
      6.6M bak-lemmy-2023-07-09_21.00.01.zip
      6.7M bak-lemmy-2023-07-10_00.00.01.zip
      6.7M bak-lemmy-2023-07-10_03.00.01.zip
      6.7M bak-lemmy-2023-07-10_06.00.01.zip
      6.7M bak-lemmy-2023-07-10_09.00.01.zip
      6.8M bak-lemmy-2023-07-10_12.00.01.zip
      6.8M bak-lemmy-2023-07-10_15.00.01.zip
      7.0M bak-lemmy-2023-07-10_18.00.01.zip
      7.0M bak-lemmy-2023-07-10_21.00.01.zip
      7.0M bak-lemmy-2023-07-11_00.00.01.zip
      7.0M bak-lemmy-2023-07-11_03.00.01.zip
      7.0M bak-lemmy-2023-07-11_06.00.01.zip
      7.0M bak-lemmy-2023-07-11_09.00.01.zip
      7.0M bak-lemmy-2023-07-11_12.00.01.zip
      7.0M bak-lemmy-2023-07-11_15.00.01.zip
      7.4M bak-lemmy-2023-07-11_18.00.01.zip
      
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        Tested deleting the pictrs/files/001 which was at that point at ~150mb. And yes, it broke stuff. For example my Avatar and a local test community logo. To “purge” it, something would need to compare it to the database i guess. My size probably comes from /c/memes 😅
        I thought remote images aren’t cached localy 🤔