@jonn Wait, I saw something the other day that said that Masto data is ephemeral. Is it permanent or not?
(I *hope* it's permanent)
@nafnlaus one query is better than a thousand words.
Stuff we interact with gets permanently cached on our instances.
Maybe big instances work differently, but it's a matter of coping with scale rather than a design choice.
@jonn Hey, while I have you here, is it possible for you to check - how much of the stored data is text vs. images vs. video?
(I'm also curious what the distribution of images served is (e.g. are the vast majority a small subset at any given time that could cache well?), but it's more complicated to investigate, so I won't bug you with it).
This relates to this issue: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/20255
@nafnlaus ok
@nafnlaus the instance is up since Autumn 2021, so for roughly a year.