Its a feature not a bug :)
My issue is lemmy.world (and other bigger instances) is so big that it was just slamming my tiny personal lemmy then later piefed server, so I had to give up. There was a HUGE queue of changes for my little instance of one user.
Instances only send you content for communities you (or someone on your instance) are subscribed to. If you don’t care about politics you could probably subscribe to a bunch of smaller communities and not have an issue.
In general though Lemmy needs a lot of disk space, best to configure pictrs not to store images which helps a lot, but the database can still be huge.
By far the most space is taken up by votes. You can disable votes (1.0 will have more options), or delete them directly from the database.
Yeah I guess the issue is that votes are the thing that makes Lemmy what it is. Without them it’s just a stream of posts with no ranking. Hard to avoid needing that space.
It’s not a huge amount of space, but if you’re on a cheap VPS then they don’t come with much space.
