JoeCoT

JoeCoT , 11 months ago to Fediverse in Imgur links suck

On Mastodon, like kbin and lemmy, locally posted images are hosted locally, and remotely hosted images are cached locally. This can cause a lot of storage. But you can run an automated cron that will clear out cached images older than whatever you want, like a month. Then the local cached storage is at a minimum, and if someone wants to view the image again, it'll get fetched. I don't know if kbin and lemmy have this feature, but they should. It's probably not the locally uploaded images that'll take up a ton of space, it's caching all the remote ones that will.

JoeCoT , 11 months ago to RedditMigration in What’s with social media companies trying to destroy themselves recently?

Don't think of Mastodon like 1000 separate social media sites. Think of Mastodon, think of the Fediverse, like email. Lots of email goes through gmail, and maybe gmail works better with gmail. But email is more than gmail. But despite AOL's best efforts, despite google's best efforts, email is also yahoo, and outlook, and Proton, and MailChimp, and your college email address, and whatever mail server your company spun up, and if you feel like it whatever mail server you setup in your basement. And yes, email has had more complications over the years as google tries to strangle it. But it's the real open platform, and the Fediverse can join it.