As I was browsing lemmy and the fediverse at large, this question kept popping into my head.

Since multimedia files have a much bigger footprint than raw text, it made me feel worried since as time goes, massive resources will be needed to keep up with the big data coming in.

I do wonder if the instances have taken the route of the cloud and just decided to put all of it in something like AWS S3? Or maybe they use self hosted storage with something like minio for object storage?

  • Trifictional@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I think this could be a ticking DOS time bomb.

    Someone manages to spam upload massive files to the largest Lemmy instances could wipe out a ton of smaller ones.

    Not to mention scalability wise this seems like a nightmare… eventually the largest Lemmy instances will have petabytes of media data with 100s of gbs coming in per day, giving other instances no chance to sync with them.

    I think the system architecture needs a significant review. This won’t scale.