Hosting a PieFed instance - Image storage (sub.wetshaving.social)

submitted 1 year ago by walden@sub.wetshaving.social to c/piefed_meta@piefed.social

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Hello everyone,

I'm keen on starting a PieFed instance to maybe replace our Lemmy instance one day. One thing I wasn't able to figure out was the various ways to store images. With Lemmy, images and thumbnails take up a large portion of whatever storage you have, so using Object Storage (like Cloudflair R2, Backblaze B2, Amazon S3) is the way to go to save money.

Is that possible with PieFed yet?

Thanks.

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[-] wjs018@piefed.wjs018.xyz 13 points 1 year ago

Yep! Absolutely. Here is the relevant portion of the docs.

I am using R2 for my instance and I set up those environment variables in my .env file before building the docker container for the first time, and everything just worked. The specifics of different S3 providers can vary a bit. There is a special set of instructions for using Wasabi S3 for example (I think this was contributed by Jerry of feddit.online).

[-] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 5 points 1 year ago

Ah, right under my nose. Thanks! This inspires me to take another look when I have some time.

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