As the question states. I have the skiils and know how to setup a new instsnce and from looking through the documentation its relatively straight forward. Im just wondering would it actually help the fediverse and lemmy as a whole? There seems to already be plenty of instances to choose from. What are your guys thoughts?

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    what happens when you clear pictrs? you mean just deleting the folder? does that break stuff?

    for comparison, my instance is only communities and no users (FAQ here: https://programming.dev/post/442419 )

    it’s about 5 days old but not much activity

    # du -h --max-depth=2 ./
    73M     ./volumes/postgres
    7.8M    ./volumes/pictrs
    8.0K    ./volumes/lemmy-ui
    81M     ./volumes
    81M     ./
    

    the latest backup is only 7.4 MB zipped, I use this backup script

    #! /bin/bash
    # https://join-lemmy.org/docs/administration/backup_and_restore.html#a-sample-backup-script
    now=$(date +"%Y-%m-%d_%H.%M.%S")
    
    cd ~/lemmy && (docker-compose exec -T postgres pg_dumpall -c -U lemmy 1> dump.sql 2> dump.errors)
    cd ~/lemmy && zip -r9 ~/bak-lemmy-$now.zip ./ --exclude "volumes/postgres/*"
    rm -f ~/lemmy/dump.sql
    

    like I said though, not much activity

    and here’s how my backup zip files have grown in size over time

    6.6M bak-lemmy-2023-07-08_03.00.01.zip
    6.6M bak-lemmy-2023-07-08_06.00.01.zip
    6.6M bak-lemmy-2023-07-08_09.00.01.zip
    6.6M bak-lemmy-2023-07-08_12.00.01.zip
    6.6M bak-lemmy-2023-07-08_15.00.01.zip
    6.6M bak-lemmy-2023-07-08_18.00.01.zip
    6.6M bak-lemmy-2023-07-08_21.00.01.zip
    6.6M bak-lemmy-2023-07-09_00.00.02.zip
    6.6M bak-lemmy-2023-07-09_03.00.01.zip
    6.6M bak-lemmy-2023-07-09_06.00.01.zip
    6.6M bak-lemmy-2023-07-09_09.00.01.zip
    6.6M bak-lemmy-2023-07-09_12.00.01.zip
    6.6M bak-lemmy-2023-07-09_15.00.01.zip
    6.6M bak-lemmy-2023-07-09_18.00.01.zip
    6.6M bak-lemmy-2023-07-09_21.00.01.zip
    6.7M bak-lemmy-2023-07-10_00.00.01.zip
    6.7M bak-lemmy-2023-07-10_03.00.01.zip
    6.7M bak-lemmy-2023-07-10_06.00.01.zip
    6.7M bak-lemmy-2023-07-10_09.00.01.zip
    6.8M bak-lemmy-2023-07-10_12.00.01.zip
    6.8M bak-lemmy-2023-07-10_15.00.01.zip
    7.0M bak-lemmy-2023-07-10_18.00.01.zip
    7.0M bak-lemmy-2023-07-10_21.00.01.zip
    7.0M bak-lemmy-2023-07-11_00.00.01.zip
    7.0M bak-lemmy-2023-07-11_03.00.01.zip
    7.0M bak-lemmy-2023-07-11_06.00.01.zip
    7.0M bak-lemmy-2023-07-11_09.00.01.zip
    7.0M bak-lemmy-2023-07-11_12.00.01.zip
    7.0M bak-lemmy-2023-07-11_15.00.01.zip
    7.4M bak-lemmy-2023-07-11_18.00.01.zip