Just started self hosting this instance. Nothing on the docs mentioned anything about storage considerations.

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      I really hope it doesn’t get purged if lemmy is to be a Reddit replacement. A lot of the value Reddit had was obscure knowledge and making google searches actually usable.

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        I think as long as the original community the post is in doesn’t purge the data, it’s fine for other instances to purge if necessary.

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          Exactly, when dealing with big data, you need a strategy to archive old data. You can’t just store everything in one DB. Smaller instances may not feel like keeping all the date from all the time. Even big instances should have a mechanism to move old data do different databases.

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        Are you planning on donating to instances that don’t purge old data?