The future isn't looking too bright. My system folder is growing at a rate of almost 2GB a day.

@matrix whatcha downloading?

@grips I meant the Mastodon system folder with media attachments etc.

@matrix ah
you're caching everything?

@grips Mastodon stores every incoming media.

@matrix @grips couldnt you just prune it ever so often? If it's just a cache...

@djabadu @grips It puts incoming and local media together. Even if it didn't I wouldn't see them on my instance if deleted them.
Once I can't afford storage I'm just gonna purge old media. 2GB a day is fine. At constant 2GB a day it's gonna take a few years before I won't be able to afford it.

@matrix couldn't you compress the media that's over a certain file size and age? There's really no way of filtering local users' media? eek

@djabadu
Mastodon already compresses everything.