Storage

so Mastodon takes up space, right? How do we manage that?

Currently we just have all our storage on the same Linode compute instance that we run the mastodon instance from. That should probably change at some point to using S3-compatible object storage.

But for now, what the heck takes up all the space?

Database

The database is relatively small since it stores

Media Storage

The instance is currently configured to remove media (images, video, audio) from other instances from the cache after 1 day - after that, the media is redownloaded from the hosting instance when accessed.

Of course, we host all media from our members indefinitely, and actively encourage them to post big images and videos because that fills up their stat counters