@alisynthesis@io.waxandleather.com
2026-04-20 13:05 UTC
@polarity@social.bitwig.community
> But you mention that your "content retention settings are super tight" but your 'Remote content retention period' is not set, and that is the only one that will impact database size. That is the only limit you are hitting at the moment. Setting 'Remote content retention period' has consequences, like I explain in https://masto.host/mastodon-content-retention-settings/, but setting it lower than your instance's age (about one and a half years) will reduce the database size.
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@alisynthesis@io.waxandleather.com 2026-04-20 13:06
@polarity@social.bitwig.community this absolutely fixed it for me. I'm on a two-user instance. I'm pretty active on here with a decent number of follows/followers (the other user on my instance is way less active). I'm now very comfortably on the Star plan + ElasticSearch, w/ a ~6GB database. My database was up to almost 20GB before I changed that setting.