I've dealt with my share of disk expansions and failures, and it's never taken 3 weeks.
this post was submitted on 20 Apr 2026
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If disk space is a problem, why don't more instances delete old stuff? 99% of what's posted doesn't need to be archived forever.
Knowing for certain that stuff is gonna get deleted is a good way to get me to never use your service.
Never deleting anything is how you end up like lemmy.sdf.org which effectively deletes everything.
Use services with sensible storage management functionality of you want to avoid your stuff being deleted.
My (limited) understanding is that there's no straightforward way to do that at least in Lemmy.
But I think PieFed has the option
Also Lemmy does have options for how to handle remote images, and that can help keep disk space down a lot
i’ve been using this https://lemmy.world/post/559690