This is an opportunity for any users, server admins, or interested third parties to ask anything they’d like to @nutomic@lemmy.ml and I about Lemmy. This includes its development and future, as well as wider issues relevant to the social media landscape today.
Note: This will be the thread tmrw, so you can use this thread to ask and vote on questions beforehand.
Disk space is definitely not an issue for us w/ postgres, or any text data really. The entire wikipedia english text data, is ~20GB. Images are the main disk-space concern for servers.
A backup of lemmy.ml’s DB is only ~1.8 GB currently, and that’s 3+ years of data.
We have no plans to move away from postgres, and lose all of its features and performance.
It may be a stupid question(, i hope so), but after taking a look at your Json(, not sure if that’s the correct term), i’ve seen that a post with an image will have in the “post”(, not “posts”,) node two u.r.l.s. for the picture, one under “url”, and the other under “thumbnail_url”. Since both u.r.l.s are different, i sure hope it doesn’t lead to almost twice as much storage, probably not 🤷♂️