That might be kind of difficult because each post is going to be different depending on instance, so there won’t be one universal link to it. What I would do is post a link to the community like this “/c/CommunityName@instance.tld”
The number is displayed on the instance the post is on, so it doesn’t matter which instance you view it from (or if you’re not logged in at all), the number is calculated from the active users who are members of the instance you’re viewing.
That’s because, currently, the community stats that you see in the sidebar are only from your instance – community stats are currently not federated. Afaik, federated community stats are going to be implemented in 0.19.
It's definitely from other instances voting on it. For example. I'm on the @kbin.social instance but I'm commenting on your post from @jeemy.jeena.net
Also, this doesn't really have to do with your point but it's interesting none-the-less, it's really hard to keep view count numbers accurate when you've got multiple servers involved. The view count is accurate and every view is being counted, but any time you look at it, it's not exactly correct. If you think about how each server might get a view count update from the server at different times, and then add the views that only it sees to the view count, and then when it goes to add it's view counts to the central count and get a new updated number there may have been dozens of other server that have updated the view count at various times between then and now.
It all gets very complicated but I think it's kind of neat that a view count number can be accurately kept track of and yet every time you look at it, it's not exactly correct.
Upgrade your storage. 160GB is nothing and 1TB SSDs are cheap
You could delete pictures, but then the posts are broken
You could archive old pictures. The pictures will have a longer load-time. Also I don’t think archiving pictures is a feature of lemmy, so you would have to implement it yourself
Edit: I think postgres is so big, because of backups. You could delete those, but that’s risky
Since I currently use Hetzner the only way to get more space is to upgrade the server (at a not inconsiderable cost).
The alternative might be to purchase SSD block storage volumes which are definitely lower priced (5€ per month for 100GB) however it would be interesting to know if there is a guide for Lemmy for this or if others have had positive experience doing this.
Since this problem I think is quite common (at least from reading a few threads and comments around) it might be interesting to create a guide especially regarding the part of having lemmy use this/mounted volume instead of the default one.
I in the meantime will try to look around for some information on how this can be done, any advice is definitely welcome.
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