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Quite a bit of space could be saved with database compression. The database side of things has lower hanging fruit right now though.
Images are not federated, they only live on the hosting instance.
Thumbnails might copied though, I'm not sure.
There is some discussion. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2947
I am still fairly confident that it shouldn't be storing images, but I'll admit my pict-rs directory is growing quite fast compared to the database. Have to keep a close eye on this.
I'm not convinced either one of us knows what the software is SUPPOSED to do, and I am pretty sure nobody knows what it's actually doing. Here's another thread: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3163
Does the image get stores on the poster's instance or the instance hosting the community they're posting to?
The poster's.
EVERYTHING by default. Also working on "discover only" for searching without the subscribe-to-everything. That said: It's far less than 3GB per day for EVERYTHING I can see, plus: you don't HAVE to keep it forever. Were you doing something that got other than text?
Do you have a link to a documentation concerning retention/cleanup for instances?
I don't. I haven't looked yet either because I haven't crossed that bridge. I think there were some admins on matrix chatting about it though. It will become an issue for large instances like near term, so I suspect someone will tackle it very soon, if they haven't already.
They're not supposed to, and don't call me friend, buddy.