I used the ansible method to get running and I am using the default paths. If you are also using the default paths, you can find your data in /srv/lemmy// . This location will hold your configuration files and your volumes directory. The volumes directory holds postgres (the database), pictrs (your image hosting) and lemmy-ui (the web-ui for lemmy). To see how much disk space you are using:

cd /srv/lemmy/<domain>/

du -hc --max-depth=1 volumes

replace with your domain.

Agreed. As much as I am saddened to lose out on some of the communities from reddit, I think this is the right direction. In time the communities will come back together and we will have been better off decentralizing.

Been running ~22 hours at this point

There's my current disk usage. I've gone wild subscribing to just about every community I come across to see how the storage adds up. Right now I've got ~150 communities subbed. We'll see how it goes and when I'll need to expand the storage.

I used the ansible route to get going. I am subbed to ~150 communities currently. Some of those won't stay, but for now I am subbing to almost anything to see how that affects disk usage. I am interested to see how, or if, it levels off over time and what a week or two out looks like. I expect by then we will all have many more tips for each other as we trial and error our way through.

Here's my current usage:

This is great! I’m eagerly watching what people are doing with the ui.

Yeah, images are where the main bulk of the storage is going. Interestingly, my instance is also just for my account presently and I have not submitted any images until my screenshot above. So these images are just those that are being pulled from other instances. I was under the impression that images were hosted from their respective instance and not saved locally, so I am curious to see how this plays out long term.

I actively seek out new bands or releases in my favorite genres, but I still absolutely listen to the same things as I did 10, or even 20, years ago.

That is a good idea. I did a quick and dirty rclone mount for the pict-rs storage, partly because it was fast and partly because I was curious how it would hold up.

I always tell myself I am finally going to finish a long story-based game, but when I make time to play I end up always starting up something like Dead Cells where I can do a run and be done. I love huge, sweeping narratives and deep mechanics, but it always falls back to being exactly how you said it, "where was I? What was I doing again?" I can't always make time to play something, so when I do I tend to pick up something I can play in bursts. Games like Just Cause are great for this.