I've dealt with my share of disk expansions and failures, and it's never taken 3 weeks.
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.
this post was submitted on 20 Apr 2026
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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
If funhole is gone forever I'll lose my mind
I never really got the humor there, lol, but I'm lamenting the loss of 80s TV because I had a lot of good Golden Girls posts since I'm finally watching it for the first time.
thank you for sharing concerned comment content
Based on the past record of issues on their Lemmy instance, I wouldn't count on it
You mean the images going down fairly regularly?
You mean the images going down fairly regularly?
Like the server itself going down fairly regularly. #ongoingtrainwreck
It's usually been the whole server going down for a day or two. It's been weeks now. If it's done, it's done, no worries, but I really wanna get back on SDF.
I hope so, I miss the funhole. I'll send them a hard drive if they need it lol
It would be nice to at least get another update.
I sure hope they do. I love Anarchist Nexus, they're great (especially with the recent lemmy.world controversy 🏴😆🖕
), but I do miss the hell out of SDF.