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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Kalcifer@lemmy.world to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

Over time, Lemmy instances are going to keep aquiring more, and more data. Even if, in the best case, they are not caching content and they are just storing the data posted to communities local to the server, there will still be a virtually limitless growth in server storage requirements. Eventually, it may get to a point where it is no longer economically feesible to host all of the infrastructure to keep expanding the server's storage. What happens at this point? Will servers begin to periodically purge old content? I have concerns that there will be a permanent horizon (as Lemmy becomes more popular, the rate of growth in storage requirements will also increase, thereby reducing the distance to this horizon) over which old -- and still very useful -- data will cease to exist. Is there any plan to archive this old data?

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[-] HamSwagwich@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

@Kalcifer

The long term solution is something like IPFS object storage that's read only for everyone but the author instance. One copy of the data but all instances can read it and it's stored forever in a redundant medium with bitrot protection.

[-] mojo@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

No thanks, don't need crypto bullshit

[-] HamSwagwich@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

@mojo Tell me you don't know what IPFS without telling me you don't know what IPFS is, lol. What the fuck does IPFS have to do with crypto?

@Kalcifer

[-] mojo@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Because ipfs isn't free and gets paid in filecoin, which is exactly what it sounds. Just crypto bullshit.

[-] HamSwagwich@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

@mojo Just keep telling people you don't know what IPFS is without coming outright and saying it. Lol.

"IpFs GeTs PaId In FiLe CoIn"

IPFS is a protocol, you nitwit. That's like saying "ActivityPub is gets paid in Filecoin" Makes no fucking sense. Build a Fediverse layer on IPFS, no crypto needed. FFS get educated before you start trying to talk to adults.

Jesus... just stop.

@Kalcifer

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